Blackpool Gazette: Heat turned up in gas fracking debate

THE regulators of controversial fracking on the Fylde came under fire at a public meeting in St Annes.

Representatives from the Department of Energy and Climate (DEC), the Environment Agency, Lancashire County Council and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were bombarded by questions from members of the public, who, last night, crammed into the United Reformed Church Hall on St George’s Road.

Mark Miller, from Cuadrilla Resources – the company behind exploratory shale gas drilling on sites at Singleton, Weeton and Westby – was also on the panel along with Tony Bosworth, from Friends of the Earth, local engineer Mike Hill and MP for Fylde, Mark Menzies who had arranged the meeting.  MORE