Ineos signals move into fracking

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Owner of Grangemouth petrochemical plant gives strongest indication yet that it will apply for shale gas extraction license

Ineos, the company at the centre of a dispute with unions at the Grangemouth plant in Scotland last year, is giving the strongest signal yet of its intention to move into the controversial area of fracking....

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