{"id":23151,"date":"2018-01-09T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/09\/fracking-firm-gets-green-light-to-test-for-oil-at-balcombe-again\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:28:55","slug":"fracking-firm-gets-green-light-to-test-for-oil-at-balcombe-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=23151","title":{"rendered":"Fracking firm gets green light to test for oil at Balcombe \u2026 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Sussex council to let Cuadrilla test oil volumes at site where mass anti-fracking protests took place in 2013Fracking firm Cuadrilla has been given the go-ahead to explore for oil near a West Sussex village that was the site of the UK\u2019s biggest anti-fracking protests.Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a way of extracting natural gas from shale rock formations that are often deep underground. It involves pumping water, chemicals and usually sand underground at high pressure to fracture shale \u2013 hence the name \u2013 and release the gas trapped within to be collected back at the surface. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/jan\/09\/fracking-firm-gets-green-light-to-drill-for-oil-at-balcombe-again\" target=\"_blank\">Fracking firm gets green light to test for oil at Balcombe \u2026 again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Sussex council to let Cuadrilla test oil volumes at site where mass anti-fracking protests took place in 2013Fracking firm Cuadrilla has been given the go-ahead to explore for oil near a West Sussex village that was the site of the UK\u2019s biggest anti-fracking protests.Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}