Hydraulic fracking, as the name implies, is water-intensive. Any discussion on fracking, therefore, must consider what effect it is going to have on this valuable resource. Before continuing however, it is worth turning the clock back to 1868 - the height of Britain’s drive towards industrialisation - and the Victorian tort case of, Rylands v …
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