The environmental damage that would be caused by allowing fracking to take place should be given very careful consideration. To allow the landscape to be destroyed as drill sites are established, tearing down trees and digging up land and to put the water table as risk from serious contamination is decision that would go against the principles set out by the Council.
Consideration regarding the provision of the vast amounts of water required by the operation and the limited resources available, and then the methods by which the contaminated water would be safely disposed of are extremely important.