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Guardian: The results of the first attempt to extract shale gas in the UK using a controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", will be kept secret for four years, MPs were told on Tuesday.
Cuadrilla Resources, a US private equity backed firm, told the energy and climate change committee that it will begin this month to pump 1,200 cubic metres of highly pressurised water mixed with chemicals and sand nearly 3,000 metres underground into an onshore shale gas reservoir near Blackpool.......
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Results of controversial ‘fracking’ for shale gas in UK will be kept secret
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 1st, 2011
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