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SNP ‘assured’ Ineos it backs fracking
INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe has received private assurances from the SNP that it does not oppose fracking, he claimed yesterday.
The Switzerland-based billionaire said his business was given the nod earlier this year during private talks with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon — on the same day her party confirmed a moratorium on the damaging extraction process.
Mr Ratcliffe believes that an onshore shale gas industry could be operating commercially as early as 2018.
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