Quadrangle: Council gives green light for first UK fracking project in five years
Plans to extract shale gas at a site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale have been approved following a landmark decision by North Yorkshire County Council made despite vociferous opposition to the application by Third Energy.
A succession of people living near a proposed fracking operation in North Yorkshire have told councillors they do not want to be the first community in the United Kingdom to allow the controversial gas...