BBC Radio Lancashire 17-04-12 Fracking Feature
Channel: No Frackin Way
Date: 2012-04-19

BBC Radio Lancashire's Brett Davison program covers 'Fracking' following the release of the DECC's so called 'Independent Report' on the Seismic activity caused by Cuadrilla's frack at Preese Hall, Lancashire.

Plans to Frack in Lancashire where proceeding as early as 2009 with planning being slipped in under the radar by Lancs County Council during 2010 and drilling rigs appearing in 2011 - they produce 2 quakes in their very first attempt to Frack [the Bowland Shale is already 'stressed'] and now the DECC report states that is likely to happen again BUT "go ahead if you can continue in a way that does not alarm the public" [ie no more larger quakes!] The biggest injustice in all this is that the companies, the council and the government knew this was coming since 2009 and we, the very people who live near these sites, are given just 6 weeks to submit our concerns - then it goes ahead anyway! Notice that none of the people who will benefit from all this live anywhere near a fracking site! It is totally unacceptable and should be stopped NOW!

In interview are John Bailey of CROP, Mark Miller - Cuadrilla CEO and Eve McNamara of REAF

www.reaf.org.uk