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THE government’s decision to give Cuadrilla permission to frack a second horizontal well in Lancashire shows “utter contempt” for local residents, campaigners said yesterday.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced that it was granting the company permission to frack a second well at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool.
Energy and clean growth Minister Claire Perry wrote to Cuadrilla chief executive Francis Egan to inform him that she was “satisfied that it is appropriate” to grant permission for fracking to go ahead.
Burnham urged to stand up to the fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil fields
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One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results