Inquiry into effects of fracking launched after Blackpool tremors

Investigation is part of an £8m research project examining impacts on land, water and air of the extraction techniqueScientists will investigate how fracking can affect drinking water and its role in earthquake tremors of the kind caused by shale gas operations near Blackpool, as part of a taxpayer-funded £8m research project.The programme, backed by the Natural Environment Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council, will examine hydraulic fracturing’s environmen