Comment
Minerals Local Plan Issues and Options consultation
Representation ID: 30369
Received: 12/01/2018
Respondent: Campaign to Protect Rural England Nottinghamshire Branch
Yes.
CPRE considers that there should be a moratorium on fracking unless it can be clearly demonstrated that fracking would:
- help secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions required to comply with planning policy and meet legally binding climate change targets;
- not lead to unacceptable cumulative harm, whether for particular landscapes or on the English countryside as a whole, and
- be carefully controlled by effective systems of regulation and democratic planning, which are adequately resourced at both local and national levels.
Climate change is the most urgent and complex threat to the English countryside today.
Yes.
CPRE considers that there should be a moratorium on fracking unless it can be clearly demonstrated that fracking would:
- help secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions required to comply with planning policy and meet legally binding climate change targets;
- not lead to unacceptable cumulative harm, whether for particular landscapes or on the English countryside as a whole, and
- be carefully controlled by effective systems of regulation and democratic planning, which are adequately resourced at both local and national levels.
Climate change is the most urgent and complex threat to the English countryside today.