Boxes of mass trauma supplies, field dressings, medical sponges are being boxed up for storage, unneeded.

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The villagers mounted a 24-hour blockade to prevent the gypsies from bringing building supplies into the field (the courts later forced them to allow sewerage works).

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Rhodri Thomas, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, says the geology of the Polish shale is similar to that of the Barnett Shale, a giant field in Texas that now supplies about 7% of America's gas.

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Fracking will also make the UK independent of foreign gas supplies from this one field alone.

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It was agreed that they would, instead, accelerate development of secure OECD supplies, notably Norway's Troll gas field.

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