Scotland Announces Moratorium on Fracking

InsideClimate News
Jan 29, 2015, 2:00 am46 pts
(Guardian) The Scottish government has announced a moratorium on all planning consents for unconventional oil and gas extraction, including fracking. Welcomed by campaigners as "a very big nail in the coffin for the unconventional gas and fracking industry in Scotland," energy minister Fergus Ewing told the…

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