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United Kingdom: Fracking firm's drilling plan unnerves West Sussex villagers
2013-05-09 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The only company to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, Cuadrilla, is to drill for oil in a West Sussex village from next month. The energy firm has said the eight-week exploratory drill near Balcombe will not involve fracking, the process of blasting liquid into rock to free natural gas trapped inside, but nonetheless the planned 3,000ft well in the local woodland of Lower Stumble, near Ardingly reservoir, looks set to hit a wall of opposition in this Conservative heartland. "It seems such...
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