Ecotricity submits planning applications for Green Gas Mills on Lancashire fracking sites

James Murray
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Green energy specialist files two planning applications to build biogas plants on proposed shale gas sites in bid to highlight that 'there's an alternative to fracking'

Ecotricity has revealed it has submitted planning applications to build so-called Green Gas Mills at two proposed fracking sites in Lancashire, in a move that could lead to a wave of similar applications...

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