> the U.K. has passed several measures to reduce shale-gas extraction, citing earthquake risks It's not a risk - we actually saw earthquakes in the areas where

> the U.K. has passed several measures to reduce shale-gas extraction, citing earthquake risks It's not a risk - we actually saw earthquakes in the areas where shale gas extraction had started: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21120-how-fracking-caused-earthquakes-in-the-uk/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21120-how-fracking-ca... I honestly cannot take this seriously after such a lie. This article is very thinly-veiled industrialist propaganda, covering a "report" by right-wing think-tankers lobbying the government to relax rules around real estate speculation. It does not deserve the upvotes it got.