The rolling
country south of Londonis
called the stockbroker belt for the residents who pay 50 percent above the U.K. average to live in pristine villages. The
advent of shale oil under their lawns may shatter the idyll. Two areas of Surrey and Sussex hold 700
million barrels of recoverable shale oil, or more than a year’s supply for
Britain, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. The advent of
drilling near mansions in the Wessex and Weald basins may widen the nation’s
shale-energy debate, which has focused on gas in northwest England, hundreds of miles
from London.
Securing
permission to frack in the Weald, a heartland of the ruling Conservative Party,
may also set a precedent for similar projects elsewhere in the U.K….To ReadMore….
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