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Church of England in 'fracking land-grab'

2013-08-15 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Residents across England have started receiving letters from the Land Registry, informing them that the Church is seeking to register the mineral rights to the earth beneath their property. Lawyers believe that the Church's claim could allow it to profit from fracking, the controversial method of extracting oil and cash by fracturing underground rocks with water and chemicals. Responding to residents' worries, the Church insisted that it has "no particular plans to mine under any property'...

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