Blackpool Gazette: Politicians urged to back fracking

Dozens of Lancashire business people attended a conference where campaigners called for politicians to get behind Lancashire’s shale gas proposals.

Cuadrilla is proposing to drill at two sites on the Fylde coast – at Roseacre and Little Plumpton. A decision on whether they can is due at the end of the year.

A new policy paper by the North West Energy Task Force, made up of business people and professionals, was unveiled at East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce’s Lancashire Manufacturers Conference, which was held at Brockholes nature reserve near Preston.

The paper says that natural gas from UK shale “could lead to cheaper, more reliable energy and a new £34bn supply chain.”
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