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United Kingdom: Energy company abandons South Downs fracking plans
2014-05-12 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-fracking campaigners have claimed victory after an energy company abandoned its plans to drill beneath their homes in the South Downs national park. Celtique Energy has told residents it will not drill horizontally under their land, though it will push ahead with a vertical well at its own site. The development, which followed a "legal blockade" by the local landowners around the site, is the latest in a growing controversy over underground drilling for shale gas. However the landowners'...
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