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England to Open Up 1,000 sq Miles for Fracking
2015-08-18 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Large areas of Yorkshire, the north-west and the east Midlands are to be opened up to fracking after the government announced it will offer a fresh round of licences for oil and gas exploration. Areas near Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham are to be offered to companies in an expansion plan that green groups predicted would trigger hundreds of battles over the future of the countryside. Ineos, the Anglo-Swiss chemicals group that wants to lead the UKs shale gas industry, was awarded...
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