The government’s consultation on opening up 63% of the country to fracking comes to an end today.
Frack Free Greater Manchester has responded raising a number of concerns about fracking including the effects on Climate Change and pollution of local water resources. FFGM has also questioned the absence of baseline data that would be needed to measure pollution and questioned the number of claimed jobs fracking will create.
Frack Free Greater Manchester response to DECC Consultation
FFGM also continues to support the camp on Barton Moss, where Igas’s delayed test drilling is expected to end in the next couple of weeks.
Martin Porter of FFGM said “If the consultation was a referendum on fracking then the government would have been defeated hands down. The more the public knows about this, the more they object. Over a thousand people marched in Manchester earlier this month. I have yet to see a demo in favour of fracking.
“However it isn’t a poll and so we fully expect two thirds of the country to be opened up for fracking. We also expect that where they site a rig there will be opposition to this unwanted, unnecessary and unsafe fossil fuel.”
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