The Guardian: Is a Fracking Revolution the Way to Cut UK Carbon Emissions?

This week, Labour shadow energy minister and environmentalist Bryony Worthington dismayed green groups by backing fracking as a way to reduce carbon emissions.

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Environmental groups also argue that other impacts, such as seismic tremors and contaminated water sources, will be impossible to guard against in a full-scale dash for shale gas.

But energy experts told the Guardian that the dismissal of fracking on this basis would be a mistake and a properly regulated industry could deliver cost and carbon savings.

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