LEP: Fracking bosses reveal site areas

The company behind controversial gas fracking in Lancashire has revealed it will focus its activities on a small section of the county.

Cuadrilla Resources, which has been set up a number of rigs testing for shale gas under the county, has said it has focused its attentions on an area stretching from Kirkham up to Singleton on the Fylde coast and out to Blackpool Airport.

It has revealed it will start further tests into the amount of shale rock under the side to check on the site, which stretches across nearly 40 square miles of the county, at the start of March for the next six months.

The firm has been carrying tests throughout the Bowland basin of shale rock which stretches across Lancashire for the last two years.

Chief executive Mark Miller said the tests would give it further information on the amount of shale gas locked under the county – believed to be enough to power the UK for up to 70 years – to decide whether to press ahead with extracting the gas by the end of the year.  MORE