Sunday Times: Explorer opens new front on fracking

An exploration company has applied to “frack” for shale gas in Yorkshire just four days after Lancashire county councillors rejected a proposal from a rival developer, Cuadrilla Resources.

Anti-fracking campaigners claimed last week that the Lancashire verdict was the shale gas version of Waterloo.

On Friday, however, Third Energy lodged its bid to frack at a site near the Vale of Pickering in North Yorkshire. The project has led to protest from locals concerned about the effects of hydraulic fracking — the drilling technique that pumps millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand underground to blast apart gas-bearing rock formations.

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