http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17726538
Quote:
A controversial technique to extract shale gas, known as fracking, should resume in the UK, a government-appointed panel of experts concludes.
Test fracking by the Cuadrilla company near Blackpool stopped last year after two quakes were felt at the surface.
The panel believes there will probably be more quakes but that they will be too small to do structural damage above ground. It recommends more monitoring.
The panel's report now goes out for a six-week consultation period, with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) issuing a firm set of regulations at some point after that.
The panel agrees with a Cuadrilla report from late last year that test fracks at the company's Preese Hall site did cause two earthquakes of Magnitudes 2.3 and 1.5 in April and May.
But they differ from that report in saying that similar events could well happen again.
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I'm not happy about this decision .....
