Blackpool Gazette: Villagers fear of truck trips

A group representing residents in a village at the centre of a proposed fracking site have raised concerns about the drilling process.

Roseacre Awareness Group was set up shortly after Cuadrilla Resources announced it would be applying to Lancashire County Council for planning permission to explore deep underground by hydraulically fracturing the rock and pumping chemicals down to extract shale gas.

The findings of a recent Environmental Impact Assessment have been sent out to residents living in the area ahead of a drop-in session to be hosted by Cuadrilla on Thursday.

And the group say they are concerned the proposed 25 trips made by trucks carrying equipment to and from the site per day will disrupt them, along with plans to build a drilling rig between 30 and 53 metres high.  MORE