UK fracking policy faces court challenges
by Adam Vaughan from Environment | The Guardian on (#453YH)
Friends of the Earth granted judicial review it hopes will help alter planning rules
Ministers face a pair of legal challenges to their planning rules on fracking this week, from a national environmental group and the son of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.
The government used its revamped planning rulebook to tell local authorities in July that they should recognise the benefits of shale gas and facilitate its extraction.
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