Fracking firm ups the ante
An energy firm has upped the ante in its plans to extract shale gas at Keynsham.
UK Methane has withdrawn a planning application for test drilling at Hicks Gate, and says it will now apply for a full production facility there.
It is facing stiff opposition from environmental campaigners who fear that the extraction process – known as fracking – will contaminate Bath's hot springs.
The firm claims the process – cleared by the Government after a tremor scare linked to a drilling rig in Lancashire – is a solution to the country's looming energy crisis.
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More than 700 people have objected to the test drilling plans submitted to Bath and North East Somerset Council.
In a letter to the council withdrawing that application, UK Methane director Gerwyn Llewellyn Williams says: "The level of information that is being requested is far higher than that for any other previous planning application that we have been involved with in other parts of the country. We feel therefore, for the extra amount of work that is involved, that we will apply for a full production permission. Central government has carried out enough work to prove that shale gas production is safe and has recently lifted the moratorium on fracking."
Anne Watts from the campaign group Frack-Free Somerset said: "Once fracking takes place, contamination of land and water is inevitable."
Comments
by lamail
Sunday, December 30 2012, 6:22PM
“YEE - ha - lets hope lots of those fracking dollars - I mean pounds - get into the south west economy.We could be sitting on a time bomb - I mean gold mine.Yee - ha let the good times roll - who needs wind you hippie types.”
by turkey222
Friday, December 28 2012, 3:19PM
“This must be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11”