The Scottish Government is set to announce a ban on fracking, ending six years of fierce controversy. Ministers are putting the finishing touches to a permanent ban, replacing the moratorium they started in January 2015. This will spell the end of plans by the energy industry to frack for shale gas under swathes of central Scotland.
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