Ref Farndon Bunding (or lack of) Just had a 20 minute conversation with Rod Brookfield who is the Head of Planning for CWAC. Some interesting things were mentioned: - Companies like DART have been drilling sites like this since 2006 and not a single one has been decided by a committee and it has been left for Rod to personally decide. This is because NOBODY has complained to their Councillor. Rather than send Rod a barrage of abuse why not send your Councillor an email to oppose test drilling and all future gas extraction in any form? - Said that DART Energy were within their rights to use double skinned tanks and not the bunding as agreed in their planning application but ultimately, as a temporary test site, it is the Environment Agencys remit to enforce. They are only using drilling solution at the moment and not the toxic waste Nice. - He would have concerns about the Upton site as its in such close proximity to residential areas and the Extraction company would have to go to great lengths to prove that they wouldnt be causing problems He sounded like he wouldnt be too opposed to extraction in Farndon as it is very remote Im sure DART could spin a nice yarn and get some top end experts in and personally i find that quite worrying. Main thing I garnered from this is tell your #fracking councillor We are all well aware of the difference of fracking and exploration coal bed methane test drilling but i think this all sets a very unsavoury precedence if its not nipped in the bud. Upton - [email protected] Farndon - [email protected]
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:43:59 +0000
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