Secret government report downplays prospects of fracking boom

James Murray
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Greenpeace uncovers report which suggests government now expects just 17 shale gas and oil sites to be up and running by the end of the decade

Heavily hyped predictions the UK could engineer a shale gas boom this decade were always likely to prove wide of the mark, and it now looks like the government agrees. Greenpeace's Unearthed website...

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