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Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan Publication Version
MP12: Oil and Gas
Representation ID: 55
Received: 05/10/2019
Respondent: Frack Free Ravenshead
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Thank you for all the good work that went into the drafting of the plan. I did meet officers during the last consultation round.
Our group feels, however, that the omission of a policy on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a serious one. The nature of the abstraction process is very different from the much easier one of getting 'conventional hydrocarbons' out of permeable rock formations. Shale has to be fractured underground using horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing. This can only be done up to a mile or so from the well head requiring well pads every couple of miles (and repeated fracturing every year or so). This would change the landscape. There are many well documented risks of fracking e.g. seismic activity in mining area, greenhouse gas emissions, ground water contamination, toxic flow back water, destructive impacts upon the health of local people, farm animals and wildlife.
We believe that the plan isn't 'sound' because of the exclusion of the above and because it is at odds with national policy on climate change. We do hope that a revision can be made to embrace the points we've made.
Thank you for considering these comments,
Dear Planning Policy Team,
Thank you for all the good work that went into the drafting of the plan. I did meet officers during the last consultation round.
Our group feels, however, that the omission of a policy on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a serious one. The nature of the abstraction process is very different from the much easier one of getting 'conventional hydrocarbons' out of permeable rock formations. Shale has to be fractured underground using horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing. This can only be done up to a mile or so from the well head requiring well pads every couple of miles (and repeated fracturing every year or so). This would change the landscape. There are many well documented risks of fracking e.g. seismic activity in mining area, greenhouse gas emissions, ground water contamination, toxic flow back water, destructive impacts upon the health of local people, farm animals and wildlife.
We believe that the plan isn't 'sound' because of the exclusion of the above and because it is at odds with national policy on climate change. We do hope that a revision can be made to embrace the points we've made.
Thank you for considering these comments,
