The Working Group is made up of just two Councillors and two other villagers.
Our job is to help the Parish Council find out what villagers think and feel about fracking - and to help the Council decide how to respond when it is asked to contribute to consultations and planning applications. If you can, please visit our Survey Page and give us your thoughts.
What is fracking? And what's it got to do with my area?
Our Links page has a good video explaining what fracking is all about. A large number of licences have been sold by government for exploration, development and production of gas from shale deposits deep in the ground under Ryedale over a 20 year period beginning in the next several years.
The process, which is known as "fracking", involves injecting water and chemicals under very high pressure into rock over a kilometer below the surface of the earth using multiple drilling rigs, and collecting gas that is displaced from the fractured rock.
For it?
The government views fracking as a key part of its drive to improve national energy security. There may be benefits to the local economy, to local employment and to landowners. A wealth fund is being discussed that may return money to people from effected areas.
Against it?
There may also be effects on the landscape, heavy goods traffic movements, noise and light pollution. There are concerns over water pollution, contaminated water disposal, and the release of greenhouse gases. Fracking has been subject to a moratorium in Lancashire following a minor earthquake, and it is banned indefinitely in Scotland.
Where does fracking fit in with climate change?
Man's part in causing climate change is not seriously disputed. The gas recovered by fracking is a fossil fuel and therefore not renewable. Whilst burning it using current technology is not as polluting as burning coal, it will still add to the UK's carbon emissions rather than reducing them. Coal burning is not, of course, an option available to the UK for future energy supply.
More information?
Please use the form on the right if you would like to receive selected and, we hope, balanced information by email from the Working Group. We will not contact you without your permission and will not pass on your email address to anyone under any circumstances.
If you are willing to give a minute or two of your time, please answer a few questions for us on the Survey Page
If you would like to contact the Fracking Working Group, please use the form below:
Our job is to help the Parish Council find out what villagers think and feel about fracking - and to help the Council decide how to respond when it is asked to contribute to consultations and planning applications. If you can, please visit our Survey Page and give us your thoughts.
What is fracking? And what's it got to do with my area?
Our Links page has a good video explaining what fracking is all about. A large number of licences have been sold by government for exploration, development and production of gas from shale deposits deep in the ground under Ryedale over a 20 year period beginning in the next several years.
The process, which is known as "fracking", involves injecting water and chemicals under very high pressure into rock over a kilometer below the surface of the earth using multiple drilling rigs, and collecting gas that is displaced from the fractured rock.
For it?
The government views fracking as a key part of its drive to improve national energy security. There may be benefits to the local economy, to local employment and to landowners. A wealth fund is being discussed that may return money to people from effected areas.
Against it?
There may also be effects on the landscape, heavy goods traffic movements, noise and light pollution. There are concerns over water pollution, contaminated water disposal, and the release of greenhouse gases. Fracking has been subject to a moratorium in Lancashire following a minor earthquake, and it is banned indefinitely in Scotland.
Where does fracking fit in with climate change?
Man's part in causing climate change is not seriously disputed. The gas recovered by fracking is a fossil fuel and therefore not renewable. Whilst burning it using current technology is not as polluting as burning coal, it will still add to the UK's carbon emissions rather than reducing them. Coal burning is not, of course, an option available to the UK for future energy supply.
More information?
Please use the form on the right if you would like to receive selected and, we hope, balanced information by email from the Working Group. We will not contact you without your permission and will not pass on your email address to anyone under any circumstances.
If you are willing to give a minute or two of your time, please answer a few questions for us on the Survey Page
If you would like to contact the Fracking Working Group, please use the form below: