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China’s rapid economic growth is being fuelled by unsustainable and deadly practices, such as fracking. This is polluting the soil and the water reservoirs.
Extracting natural gas through fracking requires drilling several thousand meters deep, and pumping in chemically-laced water....

There is an ongoing debate about whether the economic potential of fracking outweighs its dangers. England can teach the US a great deal about this, as it is one of the countries that both leads the industry of shale gas exploitation and upholds strict rules to enforce safety standards.
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Earlier this year a study by Colorado School of Public Health scholars determined that people who reside within 500 feet of an oil and gas extraction site have a cancer risk eight times higher than the maximum lifetime risk established by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents of towns...