Guardian: Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US with a shale gas revolution have been undermined with a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluding there is no potential in the Weald region of southern England.
Michael Fallon, the energy minister, insisted he was neither "disappointed nor happy" at the findings from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and denied the government had "hyped" UK potential.
He preferred to focus on more positive BGS findings that there could be 4.4bn barrels of...