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Investment zones and fracking

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Whitewavemark2 Thu 06-Oct-22 18:52:04

On our local television. Everyone getting very alarmed.

Balcombe a village in the Sussex Weald fought a battle over fracking and won, with the fracking company dividing it wasn’t worth pursuing, now another company is starting up. What happened to local consultation?

RSBP spokesman showing great worry as were others, over the so called investment zones. He said that the regs and planning are all that nature can rely on and with the Tories intent on removing them it will be a disaster.

Oh dear it is all so frightening.

MayBee70 Thu 06-Oct-22 18:55:57

DH has just written to our MP asking her if they will be fracking in our village. I don’t think the government realise how much opposition there is going to be. Roger Gale said on tv the other day he didn’t want things like that in his backyard!

Whitewavemark2 Thu 06-Oct-22 18:58:58

Bramber is in a beautiful part of Sussex. It is outrageous.

RichmondPark1 Thu 06-Oct-22 19:16:40

Jacob Rees Mogg has been saying he'd be delighted to have fracking in his back garden, especially as he'd be paid royalties. He describes allowing fracking in your garden as as 'a public service'.

His neighbours don't agree with him, understandable really as fracking in Mogg's back garden would be a risk to the next door lake which provides most of Bristol's drinking water and would also potentially impact on the geology that provides the famous spring of hot water in Bath.

He dismissed criticism of fracking on Monday, saying: “So who doesn’t like it? The socialists and Caroline Lucas. Well that makes my heart bleed.”

Daisymae Thu 06-Oct-22 19:31:06

Well all you can do is protest. It's obvious what this government is trying to do and it must be stopped. There's more to life than money.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 06-Oct-22 19:50:00

They know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.

paddyann54 Thu 06-Oct-22 23:16:16

There will be no fracking in Scotland ,we're on a fault line in our area I'd hate to see the damage that would be done .
Theres a moratorium on Fracking been in existence for a number of years now so it cant go ahead against our will.

growstuff Thu 06-Oct-22 23:22:57

RichmondPark1

Jacob Rees Mogg has been saying he'd be delighted to have fracking in his back garden, especially as he'd be paid royalties. He describes allowing fracking in your garden as as 'a public service'.

His neighbours don't agree with him, understandable really as fracking in Mogg's back garden would be a risk to the next door lake which provides most of Bristol's drinking water and would also potentially impact on the geology that provides the famous spring of hot water in Bath.

He dismissed criticism of fracking on Monday, saying: “So who doesn’t like it? The socialists and Caroline Lucas. Well that makes my heart bleed.”

Hopefully, that means that Rees-Mogg's political career is over after the next election. Labour and the LibDems currently split the opposition in his constituency, so they need to get some tactical voting pact sorted.

Daisymae Fri 07-Oct-22 16:35:27

Looks like they are going to offer between £500 - 1000 to people in the area of fracking sites. Guess this is what trickling down is in action. They trash your neighbourhood, give you a few pounds and make a fortune. Probably factoring in the process that the locals need a few quid to tide them over. Crumbs brushed off the table.

MayBee70 Fri 07-Oct-22 17:32:36

Does this mean that communities will be fighting with each other when some people want to take he money and others don’t?

Whitewavemark2 Fri 07-Oct-22 17:34:57

Get £1k - loose god knows on the value of your house