BusinessGreen: Shale gas company Cuadrilla intends to begin fracking at two sites near Blackpool as early as next year.
Planning consent will be sought "to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells on each of the sites, one at Roseacre Wood and the other at Preston New Road", the company said in a statement today.
The proposal marks the first concrete fracking plans since a ban on the controversial extraction technique was lifted at the end of 2012.
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