Halliburton could join UK fracking firm Third Energy at Yorkshire test site | Environment | The Guardian
Campaigners have raised concerns over fracking in Yorkshire potentially
being carried out by US drilling contractors Halliburton, the company
that paid out over $1bn to settle claims over its role in the Deepwater
Horizon oil disaster and admitted destroying evidence.
Third Energy has said it will apply to drill for shale gas at Kirby
Misperton in Ryedale and a spokesman told the Guardian it intends
Halliburton to be the drilling contractor. Photograph: Aaron M.
Sprecher/Getty Images
