Wales Online: Anti-fracking protest letter taken to Downing Street

ANTI-FRACKING campaigners from Wales joined protesters from across Britain yesterday to deliver a letter to Downing Street calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to impose an immediate ban.

Six people representing Lancashire, Sussex, Falkirk, Belfast, the Ribble Estuary and the Vale of Glamorgan handed in the letter calling for shale gas and coal bed methane exploration and development in the UK to cease.

Vanessa Vine, who was representing Sussex, said their key message for Mr Cameron is: “Safe fracking is the oxymoron of the decade.

“You can’t do it safely. You cannot legislate for the vagaries of the subterranean geology.

“You start putting water underground at pressure that will crack million-year-old rock, it’s going to go through your cement well casings.

“Your chemicals are going to escape along the water courses.”  MORE