[arista]

http://news.sky.com/story/government...shire-10606995


[The Government has
approved fracking for
shale gas at one site in
Lancashire but has asked
for more information on another.
Permission has been granted for the extraction of shale gas from Preston New Road, near to Blackpool.
An application to drill at the Roseacre site, nearby, has been delayed.
It is understood the Government is minded to approve the permit for Roseacre but wants more time to look at further evidence.]

[Scarlett.]

Funny.

The people of Blackpool didn't want this.
Blackpool Council didn't want this.
Lancashire County Council didn't want this.

DEMOCRACY AT WORK!

[bitontheslide]

happy for them to frack away providing they restrict it to up north

[LeatherTrumpet]

Look how the USA now has no fuel dependence due to fracking, great idea

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Look how the USA now has no fuel dependence due to fracking, great idea

The US has individual STATES with more land area than the entire UK. They can frack without it being under homes, motorways and active farmland. There's a difference.

It's also a temporary patch-up job, hoovering up the last dribbles of finite resources... a better solution is still going to need to be found eventually. But that's a problem for another day, I guess.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The US has individual STATES with more land area than the entire UK. They can frack without it being under homes, motorways and active farmland. There's a difference.

It's also a temporary patch-up job, hoovering up the last dribbles of finite resources... a better solution is still going to need to be found eventually. But that's a problem for another day, I guess.

Yes that is a good point

[Cherie]

So the government want local councils to be responsible for their own affairs only when it suits

[Kizzy]

Hey we wanted energy and the govt provided... damned if hey do damned if they don't, so what if our taps are on fire!

[Scarlett.]

I always find it funny when we're told that the quakes caused by fracking wouldn't be noticeable, the ones during the testing in 2011 were very noticeable. Even Cuadrilla admitted that it was the drilling that caused the quakes, and this was just during the TEST stage.

[MTVN]

Good news, cheap and sustainable energy and to hell with the nimbys

[Scarlett.]

Easy thing to say when it isn't your backyard. Especially when we fought democratically, the town council fought democratically and the county council fought democratically to not have any fracking done here, and the government ignored all of us for it's corporate interests. It's not like Blackpool hasnt bent over backwards to provide power, with a large offshore windfarm, and the Heysham Nuclear Power Station a few miles up the road.