'Black wall' of redacted pages as UK fracking report finally released
by Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent from on (#4VZMN)
People will wonder why there is so much the government wants to conceal, says Greenpeace
The government has heavily redacted a secret report into the fracking industry after it was forced to comply with a court order for its release.
The Whitehall report on the UK shale gas sector emerged on Monday after a years-long battle to uncover the hidden documents - but with three quarters of its pages blacked out. The 48-page report, seen by the Guardian, includes 37 pages that are entirely blacked out and only one - the front cover - that was left uncensored.
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