The Telegraph: Fracking possible in Scotland's most populated areas

SNP ministers are facing a dilemma over allowing fracking in Scotland after a report said it could deliver major economic benefits but the best shale gas reserves were in the country’s most populated areas.

An expert group commissioned by the Scottish Government found there are no significant technological barriers to the development of an "unconventional" hydrocarbon industry and that it could be extracted safely.

But it said most of Scotland’s coal bed methane and shale gas reserves are found in and around former coal fields and oil share fields, “which remain amongst the most densely populated parts of the country”.
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