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UK government's fracking definition 'could allow drilling without safeguards'

2016-04-13 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The UK government has been accused of including a large loophole in its legal definition of fracking which could enable companies to bypass safety regulations, according to a leading geologist. In rules that came into force on 6 April, fracking is defined by the amount of high-pressure fluid used to fracture shale rocks and release gas or oil. However, the only well fracked in the UK so far, which caused small earthquakes near Blackpool in 2011, would not qualify as fracking under the definition....

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