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  Now the divide and conquer tactic.
  
  People living in fracking areas set to get more compensation
  
  Ministers ready to increase sums paid to affected communities in effort to pacify local opposition
  
  People living close to where shale gas is extracted stand to get more compensation as the Government tries to quell local resistance to "fracking".
  
  Large parts of Britain are thought to contain huge reservoirs of shale, and the proposed move follows growing interest in fracking among energy firms.
  
  The use of pressurised water and chemicals to pump out deeply buried gas has been condemned by environmental campaigners as a dirty, dangerous technique that contributes to climate change.
  
  Fracking has been banned in France and Germany and faces widespread opposition within the European Union. But Conservative ministers see the technology as a way of securing Britain's energy independence.
  
  At the moment communities are offered £100,000 for each well at which exploratory drilling takes places, plus 1 per cent of the eventual profits from that well. Under this formula, communities could receive between £5m and £10m over a 25-year period.
  
  Full report Independent.

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