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All fracked out before we’ve begun?

Source: Daily Telegraph

“The 130 resistance groups around the country have dealt a blow to those at the heart of shale gas and oil exploration.”

“The industry increasingly fears that, here, too, it is losing the ‘social licence’ of public support needed to operate successfully.”

“Forget all the hype about fracking bringing down gas prices here, as in the US (even the industry no longer believes that); or creating tens of thousands of jobs (you’d get far more per unit of energy from insulating buildings).”

Source: Daily Telegraph