Ecologist: Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it’s a ‘fait accompli’ in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans – strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy. It’s a question of fear. What secretly worries pro-fracking Conservative ministers, The Ecologist has learned, is that a Labour administration…

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