Telegraph: Fracking: Cuadrilla community benefits could be worth £6,000 per household
Families near Cuadrilla's proposed fracking sites could be in line for benefits worth more than £6,000 each, with just 130 households expected to see the "lion's share" of up to £800,000 promised to local communities, the company has disclosed.
The shale gas explorer on Tuesday announced plans to frack for shale gas next year at two sites near Roseacre Wood and Little Plumpton, between Blackpool and Preston.
It had promised local communities £100,000 for each well that is fracked and says it wants to frack up to four wells at each site.
Francis Egan, chief executive, told the Telegraph that "the lion’s share" of those benefits were expected to go to the communities in immediate proximity to the drilling sites.
Cuadrilla said there were just 130 households in the immediate locality of the two sites - in the communities of Roseacre, Little Plumpton and Great Plumpton. MORE