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Lancashire council advise to approve fracking bid on one site

A report has recommended that fracking should be approved on one of the two sites on the Fylde coast.

Lancashire County Council have recommended the application for fracking at Little Plumpton be approved in a response to an application from energy company Cuadrilla to extract shale gas

A second application for fracking in Roseacre Wood has been recommended for refusal.

The final decisions will be taken next week and if approved it would be the first time a council has made such a decision since tests near Blackpool took place.

The approval is only for test fracking on the site, if the company intended to proceed with commercial fracking, a separate application would be required.

Furqan Naeem, from Friends of the Earth,said to the BBC that preventing fracking was one of their “priority campaigns” as “people generally don’t want it”.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .