Fracking Set to Be Banned From 40% of England's Shale Areas

InsideClimate News
Feb 2, 2015, 1:00 am22 pts
(Guardian) Fracking is set to be banned on two-fifths of the land in England being offered for shale gas exploration by the government, according to a Guardian analysis. Such a wide-ranging ban would be a significant blow to the UK's embryonic fracking industry, which David Cameron and George Osborne have…

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