Letter Smythe & Haszeldine: As sometime energy advisers to the UK government, we are concerned that fracking of unconventional oil and gas formations risks being classed as conventional hydrocarbon exploration, a relatively insignificant and unobtrusive cottage industry in the United Kingdom. This results from the government using legally binding definitions of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) resources and of highvolume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF, or fracking) that have little rational or scientific basis.
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