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April 20, 2012

Fracking Won't Transform Britain Like It Has U.S.

Editors, The Economist


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The earth’s crust is riddled with unresolved tensions—prod, pierce or bend it enough and these chthonic stresses will find sudden release. Attempts to assess the possibility of producing natural gas from shale beds under Lancashire had such an effect last year. . .

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