Blackpool Gazette: MP calls for tighter watch on fracking
A Fylde MP has called for regulation and monitoring around fracking to be tightened up ahead of any decision to allow it to go ahead.
Mark Menzies made the call after taking part in a Commons debate about the controversial method of extracting natural gas from deep lying shale rock using high pressure water and chemicals.
Energy company Cuadrilla has applied for planning permission to drill and test frack for gas at two sites in his constituency, at Little Plumpton and Roseacre Wood.