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UK shale gas viability check will take five years, says Cuadrilla boss
2014-01-31 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It will take five years and the drilling of 20 to 40 fracking wells to judge whether the UK has a viable shale gas industry, the chairman of the only company yet to have used modern hydraulic fracturing techniques here has told the Guardian. Lord Browne of Madingley, former chief of BP and now chairman of Cuadrilla, said the work must be done, because exploiting shale gas was "a national imperative". He said the process would take so long because of the UK's strict planning laws. "We have very...
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