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What’s wrong with fracking?

The costs and benefits explained

Following on from Simon Oakes’ News watch on fracking in GEOGRAPHY REVIEW Vol. 27, No. 1 (September 2013), this article looks in more detail at the arguments for and against shale-gas exploitation in the UK. It is useful for topics on energy, and rural issues

A protest against a fracking development near Southport

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The UK government is committed to developing renewable energy resources, with the aim of reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and our dependency on imported energy supplies. This focus on renewables is being tested by recent discoveries of large shale-gas resources in Britain.

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