Anti-fracking campaigners have applied for judicial review of a council’s decision to allow use of the gas extraction technique in North Yorkshire. Despite all this, the county council have let the people of North Yorkshire down by failing to address these crucial factors. The fracking application was the first to be approved in the UK since 2011, when tests on the Fylde coast, in Lancashire, were found to have been the probable cause of minor earthquakes in the area. Friends of the Earth (FoE) and members of a local residents group, Frack Free Ryedale, have applied to the high court for a judicial review of the decision. FoE’s Yorkshire and Humber campaigner, Simon Bowens, said: “Shale gas is a dirty fossil fuel and it is the responsibility of North Yorkshire county council to require a full assessment of the impact this fracking application would have on the climate.

Source: The Guardian July 06, 2016 22:52 UTC