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Balcombe councillors ask for help to research fracking facts
JPCT 200112 Green Euro-MP Keith Taylor visits Balcome to support anti-fracking protestors. Mr Taylor with campaigner Vanessa Vine. photo by derek martin
BALCOMBE Parish Council is forming a working group to investigate the proposed shale fracking exploration borehole at Lower Stumble, between the village and Cuckfield.
In a letter to all residents, chairman Alison Stevenson says: “Over the past month the Parish Council has established communications with the parties and regulatory bodies involved and believes that within the village there are people with relevant expertise whose views would be valuable in assessing the credibility of the information obtained from the various sources and who may be able to contribute additional information.”
Mrs Stevenson says Balcombe Parish Council believes its responsibility in the controversial issue of possible fracking for oil/gas at Lower Stumble, within the parish boundary, is in three parts:
• Phase 1: To gain as much accurate information about the fracking process as possible, and to share this information with the residents of the village.
• Phase 2: Thereafter to seek actively the views of the residents.
• Phase 3: Thereafter to act as an advocate on behalf of the residents in promoting their views to the relevant authorities, and in supporting such lawful actions as may be appropriate in the furtherance of those views.
The Parish Council wants to establish a working group comprising some of its members plus other residents of Balcombe.
Anyone who thinks that they have relevant expertise or experience, technical, commercial or other, have no vested interest in the proposed exploration and would be interested in joining the working group, should contact Rodney Saunders, preferably by email to rodneysaunders@clara.net, or by telephone on 01444 811598 to indicate what they feel they would be able to contribute to the working group.
A statement by the Parish Council on the proposed borehole can be found on the village website www.balcombevillage.co.uk under announcements.
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