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Fracking compensation offer

Proposal to offer compensation to communities to allow fracking : brainwave or bribe?

Paying compensation to people who live near fracking sites. Does the Prime Minister's suggestion to do just that amount to a brainwave - or is it nothing more than an attempt to bribe residents into keeping quiet about their concerns? Mark Carruthers spoke to Tanya Jones from the Green Party who is very worried about the proposal and from the DUP's Sammy Wilson who says environmentalists are trying to drag society back to the days of the horse and cart in their campaign against fracking.

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