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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

EXPLAINED: Fracking firm cuadrilla to permanently abandon controversial uk sites - The Real Truth

The Cuadrilla hydraulic fracturing site at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire.
The Cuadrilla hydraulic fracturing site at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire. Photograph: Cuadrilla/PA

The owner of the shale fracking company Cuadrilla will permanently plug and abandon its two shale wells in Lancashire, drawing a line on Britain’s failed fracking industry.

Cuadrilla set out plans to permanently seal the two shale gas wells drilled at the Preston New Road Lancashire shale exploration site a little over two years after the government brought an end to fracking in England.

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