Synopsis
Iain Stewart investigates a controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground, sometimes right under the places people live in.
- Programme: Horizon
- Series: 2012-2013
- Episode: Fracking: The New Energy Rush
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Geography
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