Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest faces fracking threat
by Gwyn Topham from Environment | The Guardian on (#279M8)
Ineos to conduct seismic survey for shale gas and could be working within 200m of the 1,000-year-old tree Major Oak, documents reveal
The latest battleground for the future of fracking in Britain looks set to be Sherwood Forest, the legendary home of folk hero Robin Hood and now the target of a seismic survey by Ineos.
The chemical multinational, which relocated its headquarters back to the UK last month, appears to have agreed terms with the Forestry commission to start burying charges and spend up to two years using "thumper trucks" or vibroseis machines to search for shale gas.
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