Fracking in Glossopdale and under the Peak District remains a possibility after the government removed commitments to protect National Parks from fracking legislation.
However Labour amendments to the bill were removed by the House of Lords and when the bill was passed by the House of Commons on Wednesday 12th February Ms Rudd said “For example, in the case of areas of outstanding natural beauty and national parks, given their size and dispersion, it might not be practical to guarantee that fracking will not take place under them in all cases without unduly constraining the industry.” The exact protection will be defined by the Minister at a future date.
Fracking is carried out by horizontal drilling that can extend up to two miles from the drill site. Theoretically a rig in Glossopdale could be used to extract shale gas from under the National Park.
Martin Porter from Glossop, spokesperson for Frack Free Greater Manchester said “Fracking is unnecessary, unsafe and unwanted. It is the last gasp of the fossil fuel dinosaurs. The Peak District National Park is not the ‘desolate north’, it is somewhere my grandfather fought to protect. If the government breaks its promise we could see a new Mass Trespass to protect the Peak.”
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I’m from Glossop, I personally think that fracking would be awesome…
Think of the cheap petrol !!!
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You may be confusing the English use of the word gas with the American one. You can’t put this stuff in your Ford Mondeo.
It’s also not going to be cheap, we can take the chairman of Cuadrillas word for that.