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United Kingdom: Fracking Boss Faces Growing Tremors of Resistance from Public, Press and Tories
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: He knew it would be a tough job when he took it on last year, but Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, could not have imagined the role would bring with it death threats and reporters turning up at his house trying to "frack" his garden. Environmentalists have been campaigning against fracking for years, but Egan's attempt to drill in the pretty West Sussex village of Balcombe has turned hydraulic fracturing (to give it is proper name) into a highly emotive subject...
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