Shale driller pleads for chance to frack under Blackpool

The future of Britain’s shale gas industry hangs on a small exploration company that’s been stymied by protests, earth tremors and bureaucracy convincing the government to give it another chance to drill a giant deposit near England’s biggest tourist resort.

Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. is the focus of a public trial- like inquiry that started on Tuesday in Blackpool, a town known for its illuminated boardwalk, casinos and budget hotels. The appeals hearing may be the company’s last chance to restart an exploration program in Lancashire County halted in 2011 after it caused tremors.

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