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...the former BP boss Tony Hayward said on Tuesday: "I treat the more extravagant claims about the coming fracking boom with caution. Certainly shale gas reserves are very large but Britain's geology and denser population will make it harder to benefit from them than it is in the US."

The former Tory environment secretary John Gummer, now Lord Deben, noted that most UK shale gas deposits are in the north-west and south-east. "How very inconvenient of shale gas to choose places where planning permission will be most difficult," he remarked on Twitter.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/fracking-north-east-england-tory-peer