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Fracking Will Be Allowed under U.K. National Parks, MPs Decide
2015-02-12 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking companies will be allowed to drill horizontally under national parks and other protected areas if the wells start just outside their boundaries, after the government rowed back on its earlier acceptance of new environmental protections. Ministers were forced to accept a series of new regulations from Labour on 26 January after facing defeat by concerned backbenchers, but the final amendments passed by MPs on Monday unpicked many of them. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas accusing ministers...
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