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Fast track for fracking

Environmental campaigners have accused the Government of ‘riding roughshod over local democracy’ with new plans designed to fast-track fracking applications.

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 August 2015

Environmental campaigners have accused the Government of ‘riding roughshod over local democracy' with new plans designed to fast-track fracking applications.

The Department for Communities and Local Government is expected to announce new rules today to speed up the planning process for shale gas exploration.

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