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Today planning officers at Lancashire County Council published their long awaited recommendations on Cuadrilla’s applications to extract shale gas at their proposed sites at Roseacre and Preston New Road, Little Plumpton. The planners cited...
Defend Lytham read with interest the findings of the new “Britain Thinks Survey” from Cuadrilla. Two things stand out from it. Firstly the huge discrepancy between these reported survey results and national polls by...
Here are links to our radio interviews with Radio Wave and Radio Lancashire today Radio Wave carried a short interview this morning – listen by clicking here Radio Lancashire had a headline item featuring...
On Thursday 3rd October we read an editorial in the Blackpool Gazette which summed up a lot of how we believe local people feel about fracking. It was a reaction to the premature and...
In today’s Lytham St Annes Express our letter commenting on Councillor Armit’s letter was published – slightly edited down, but it had been a detailed response. Immediately after it (in the interests of balance...
The world according to our politicians sometimes seems to bear little resemblance to the real world in which we live. This morning John Hobson from Defend Lytham was interviewed live on air by Radio...
Last week’s edition of The Report focused on fracking http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jkr1q It made a better fist of it than many recent attempts at covering the subject, and it was interesting to hear local farmer, Andy...
You can hear John’s short interview with Radio Wave by clicking here
The government released yesterday details of the new planning guidelines for onshore oil and gas. Defend Lytham is particularly concerned that the release of this document was delayed until the day after Parliament went...
We’ve been busy today talking to Radio Lancashire, BBC North West tonight and Radio Wave about the unnecessary tax breaks for fracking and the report that UK Water have validated our concerns about water...