Chris Hesketh from Frack Free Dudleston – a village near Ellesmere – together with Steve Davenport, the local county councillor, say allowing fracking in Britain will distract from actually tackling the energy crisis.
Mr Hesketh and Councillor Davenport said the decision taken by Shropshire Council over north Shropshire seven years ago should be applied across the UK.“Shropshire had three locations with planning permission for unconventional gas extraction and then in 2014 Dart Energy sought to renew one of the planning permissions in Dudleston,” they said.
In 2015 Dart Energy was sold to iGas and then iGas appealed against the planning decision. But six months later, iGas withdrew its planning appeal on the grounds that the geology would not work. “There was almost certainly gas in the ground, but the highly fractured nature of the ground means that the technology is incapable of extracting it. That same point applies across the whole of the UK.”
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