Britain’s first U.S. shale gas delivery arrives in stormy Scotland | Reuters
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Britain’s first shale gas delivery from the United States sailed into a heated European political debate on fracking on Tuesday and immediately ran into its first practical problem - the Scottish weather.
The huge “Ineos Insight” tanker had entered the Firth of Forth at sunrise, a lone Scots piper playing on its bow, as it headed for the Grangemouth refinery, west of Edinburgh.
But gusty squalls prevented it from unloading its controversial cargo before an assembled crowd of dignitaries.
“The Insight vessel was unable to dock at the port due to high winds,” said a spokesman for Zurich-based chemicals giant Ineos. It would arrive at the port as soon as wind died down, he added.
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