Westby Nr Blackpool, Lancashire 31st October, 2014. Frack Free Lancashire_Local Residents opposed to proposed fracking demonstrate in Fancy Dress outside Maple Farm Nursery. Roadside Anti-Fracking Signs erected & paid for by local businessman Mr John Toothill, who on his own admission is obsessive about his objection to proposed fracking at nearby Plumpton. Lancashire County Council is considering Cuadrilla’s planning application and they are encountering strong community resistance.
The gas company has made two applications to frack in Lancashire where more than 14,000 residents have sent letters of objection to the County Council. More time is needed to consider two proposed planning applications for fracking on the Fylde, Lancashire County Council has said. Energy firm Cuadrilla wants planning permission to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells. The authority was set to consider applications for sites at Little Plumpton and Roseacre Wood next month. Planning officials at the county council want the decision deadline to go back to 31 December for the proposed site at Preston New Road in Little Plumpton and to 31 January next year for the similar site at Roseacre Wood in Inskip. The authority said it needed more time to ensure all the information was ready for the development control committee. Helen Rimmer from Friends of the Earth said: "It is vital that there is enough time to properly understand the impacts, and we believe a thorough assessment of the risks to the environment, communities and the climate should lead councillors to refuse these plans." Cuadrilla believes Lancashire's Bowland basin has the potential to become a leading shale gas resource. Hundreds of protesters attended a six-day long Reclaim The Power camp in August near the Little Plumpton proposed site to campaign against shale gas extraction in the region by the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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