Financial Times: Bath pours cold water on fracking

The tourists were queueing as usual for their £26 session at the Bath thermal spa on Friday. But across the city there was official anxiety the city’s £57m tourism industry could be under threat from another danger – fracking.

The object of their fear is a government decision, announced on Thursday, to lift a moratorium on shale gas exploration, a move that some oil companies believe could unlock a vast new domestic energy resource.  MORE