By striking down the practice just a month after the Council of Mines report, the Cantabria Partido Popular has decided that it is not.

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He was describing the multitude of caves that puncture the limestone slopes that spread across Asturias, Cantabria and Castilla y Leon regions in northern Spain.

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They joined wrestlers from Cantabria in Spain, Friesland in the Netherlands, Scotland and Tunisia, as well as a host of competitors from all over Brittany in 138-strong field.

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Spain pushed back against European shale with a local vote in the northern region of Cantabria mounted a vote against the practice of hydraulic fracking amid mounting concerns about its environmental impact.

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After all, while the Cantabria branch of the party launched the opposition movement, the national Partido Popular, which holds a parliamentary majority in Madrid, has come out in favor of fracking on a number of occasions.

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