MEPs formally approved the draft regulation during the daily voting session on 13 March 2012.

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The draft regulation was backed by 569 votes to 15 at the daily voting session on 14 February 2012.

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To keep power flowing reliably, grid operators must smooth out supply and demand on a second-to-second basis (known as frequency regulation), an hourly basis (intermittency), and on a daily, weekly, and annual basis (meeting peak demand).

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Tougher regulation would anger newspapers that are already highly critical of Mr Cameron, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, not to mention News International (which owned the News of the World).

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Put another way, how are government regulatory agencies and legislative bodies to be expected to make rational decisions around the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and the oil and gas industry in general when they are bombarded on a daily basis by media reports, blog posts and emails from anti-fractivists that seem more than anything else designed to intentionally mislead them?

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