Shale gas here – but fracking row goes on

THE first shipment of controversial shale gas has arrived in the UK as campaigners step up calls for a ban on fracking.

A tanker sailed down the Forth in central Scotland to the Ineos refinery in Grangemouth.

Ineos says the shale gas will replace dwindling North Sea supplies and secure essential raw material for Grangemouth, supporting around 10,000 jobs there.

But Friends of the Earth Scotland has spoken out about “environmental damage” caused in the US, where fracking is now an established industry.