Lat Wednesday, we took our message to say, please don't frack Lancashire, to county Hall. We setup a mock fracking drill outside County Hall, just to let them see quite what they were hoping to inflic on Lancashire in the future. We chose last Wednesday as this was the day the planning committee were meeting. They weren't making decisions about allowing Cuadrilla licences to frack at this meeting, but they will be soon, and we thought they should get to see what they were about to unleash! The response we got was a positive one, with members of the public and staff at LCC on the whole seeming supportive, and plenty of press turning up too. We made our points that this was not going to bring in the grossly over inflated numbers of jobs that Cuadrilla have estimated, and it won't bring us cheap gas - even Cuadrilla have admitted this. It will bring in heavy industrialisation, possible water contamination, and it will impact on house prices. We already have a growing green energy sector in the North West - with 26000 already employed, but the possibility of fracking in the area is holding this back.
If they start fracking Lancashire, it will open the flood gates to do it all over England and Wales - we can tell those who have the power to make decisions, that this is not what we want - sing to Greenpeaces Frack and go campaign and tell them we dont want fracking!
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