He said the company would buy water from Dallas Water Utilities for hydraulic fracturing - "terminating it forever," he said, meaning it can never be used again.

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But what's important is the debate: after all, didn't Nick Clegg ask us for suggestions on Marr on Sunday? Let a thousands flowers bloom, and send them to the Treasury. Ministers are relishing the experience of having the most powerful department in Government touting for ideas, when in the past a Budget was something the Chancellor inflicted on his colleagues, usually sight unseen. Allister's suggestions - slash corporation tax to 11pc to trump the Irish, and scrap CGT altogether - will delight the business world. He argues that the hit to the Treasury's coffers would be made up in a surge of investment, exuberance and eventual revenue. But while I defer his to his knowledge of economics, the issue at hand is public confidence. The Government needs us all to get out there and start spending. There is a vital argument to be had about how radical measures night be paid for: it is simply too glib to say stick it on the credit card. But the clamour is becoming deafening. That's why I suggested yesterday highly visible, unequivocal cuts to personal taxation as a way of sending a signal to everyone, not just businessmen, that it's worth showing some confidence. The performance of the stock market, and the jubilant scenes on Wall Street at its close last night, tell us that everyone is poised to get stuck in. They're just waiting for a sign.There's nothing like a Royal Wedding to plunge the nation into a fit of sentimentality, but should we really be heaping praise on the Royal Family for being so "democratic" and "open-minded" about Kate? To my mind, the family that deserves credit are the Middletons, who haven't raised any objections to their daughter marrying into the Windsor clan.

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Sharyl Attkisson, who made a career of holding both sides of official Washington to account, announced with a five-word tweet that she and the network had parted ways: "I have resigned from CBS."