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A worker at the Cuadrilla fracking site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire
CALLS for a fracking ban have intensified after another tremor shook communities living near Britain’s only active site.
Lancashire residents reported being woken up to their houses shaking and books falling off shelves on Saturday night.
The quake was blamed on the gas extraction processes by fracking firm Cuadrilla at its controversial Preston New Road facility near Blackpool.
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results