An independent expert report recommended that Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. should be allowed to continue with hydraulic fracturing operations.

Future shale gas operations elsewhere in the U.K. should be assessed prior to starting, the report by the Department of Energy and Climate Change said.

Cuadrilla suspended fracking operations after they caused two small earthquakes last year.

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