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The UK's Information Commissioner has ordered the government to publish an unredacted version of a fracking environmental report ahead of next week's decision

by: Erica Mills

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Yahoo News: Full Fracking Report to Be Printed

The Government has been ordered to publish in full a heavily-redacted report on the impacts of fracking.

The internal document - titled Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts - had several key sections obscured when it was published by the Environment Department (Defra) last summer in response to a request under environmental information laws.

Assessments of the impacts on house prices and local services were heavily redacted in the draft report - prompting calls from campaigners, and councillors in Lancashire set to decide if fracking can go ahead in their area, for the full report to be published.

Read the full report HERE.

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