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  The small town of Dimock saw its water become brown, undrinkable, even flammable – and its residents are still feeling the effects
• Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue
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  Calls grow for lifting of moratorium on onshore drilling in England to become policy under new leader
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  Low natural gas prices are essential to lowering inflation and retaining an American manufacturing edge. Natural gas prices feed into the costs of almost all products, since natural gas is the major source of electricity in the U.S. A rise in power cost,...
• Fracking explained: the controversial extraction process that Harris and Trump sparred over
  Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, record amounts of oil and gas have been produced in the US in the past six years

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