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The UK ends its ban on fracking

In 2019, the practise of fracking, often known as the extraction of shale gas from rocks by breaking them up, was made illegal because of fears that it could cause earthquakes. Over the course of that year, a fracking site in Lancashire recorded more than 120 earthquakes, the vast majority of which were not strong enough to be felt. Residents of Blackpool reported being awoken in the middle of the night by the strongest earthquake triggered by fracking, which happened in 2011.