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How Britain’s fracking industry was regulated into irrelevance

13 February 2022

6:00 PM

13 February 2022

6:00 PM

This week the fracking company Cuadrilla announced that it was permanently closing its two shale mines in Lancashire, after the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) declared that shale gas companies must seal up the wells they had drilled and return the land to nature.

It is, on the face of it, a very strange step to take at this time.

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