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The Rt Hon Theresa May Prime Minister 10 Downing St London SW1A 2AA The Rt Hon Theresa May Prime Minister 10 Downing St London SW1A 2AA CC. The Rt Hon James Brokenshire - Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government CC. The Rt Hon Greg Clark - Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy CC. The Rt Hon Michael Gove - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs CC. The Rt Hon Philip Hammond - Chancellor of the Exchequer CC. The RT Hon Matt Hancock - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care CC. The Rt Hon Claire Perry - Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth Dear Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers Today (1st December) we are delivering our Frack Free Declaration to Downing Street, which has been signed by numerous politicians, academics, community groups, NGOs and members of the public. The Declaration also contains thousands of signatures collected by local residents in communities affected by fracking across the country. Together we call for an immediate halt to fracking and associated methods of unconventional oil and gas exploration and production in the UK, such as coal bed methane and acidisation. It is clear that developing an unconventional oil and gas industry in the UK will result in unacceptable negative impacts on local communities, local democracy, energy security, jobs, the climate, health and the environment, and that the government should instead be urgently developing an energy policy and infrastructure that provides the clean renewable energy future that our country – and the planet – so desperately needs. LOCAL COMMUNITIES, LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL LICENCE It is abundantly clear that local communities up and down the UK will never be persuaded to welcome fracking in their areas. Despite repeated efforts to entice communities with ‘shale gas dividends’ and promised pay-outs from notional industry profits, not a single community threated by this industry has come out in favour of having fracking on their doorstep. On the contrary, wherever fracking is proposed, local people mobilise in their thousands to do whatever they can to stop this industry in its tracks. Every planning application related to fracking results in hundreds, if not thousands of objections. For example, Third Energy’s plans to frack at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire was opposed by 99.2% of the people who responded to the planning application (4,375 objections and only 36 letters in favour), yet was approved by the Conservative-led county council. In Lancashire, both the local community and the council rejected Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road, only to have their views ignored and their decision summarily overturned by a government minister. The same story of widespread local opposition is repeated up and down the UK wherever fracking is proposed, despite the government’s PR drive to persuade people of the need for fracking. According to the most recent WAVE survey conducted by the department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), only 15% of people support fracking1 – down 3% from the previous survey. It is therefore clear that fracking does not have – and indeed will never have – social licence to proceed in the UK. The government’s response to this implacable and unyielding opposition has been disappointing, to say the least. Instead of withdrawing its support of fracking and investing heavily in clean renewable energy – which is supported by 80% of people in the latest WAVE Survey – the government have attempted to override local democracy by proposing that exploratory drilling should be classified as Permitted Development, and that major fracking projects are classed as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project. This attempt to subvert the planning process runs contrary to the government’s stated support of localism, and has resulted a wave of condemnation from all sides of the House, including many MPs within the Conservative Party. At a recent 1 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/beis-public-attitudes-tracker-wave-27?utm_source=8e1da177-628c-47e3-9674- f7b77c684e77&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Westminster Hall debate, Conservative MPs lined up to condemn the government’s proposals. Mark Menzies, Conservative MP for Fylde, whose constituency includes Cuadrilla’s fracking site at Preston New Road, said, “Moving to permitted development is nothing short of irresponsible and downright bonkers.” Kevin Hollinrake, whose Thirsk and Malton constituency includes Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton, said the proposals would “ride a coach and horses” through measures agreed by North Yorkshire County Council to restrict shale gas developments. And Lee Rowley, the Conservative MP for North East Derbyshire which includes the INEOS Marsh Lane site, urged the government to withdraw its plans immediately, saying: “This proposal on permitted development and NSIP is ludicrous and needs to be stopped.”2 In the same week Zac Goldsmith, Conservative MP for Richmond, issued a warning to the government, saying: “Fracking is an issue that has the potential to turn whole regions against the government. The drilling rigs and pollution, the industrial equipment and sheer volume of trucks all make it an alarming prospect for communities up and down the country.” 3 The government’s plans to fast-track fracking are not only opposed by many of its own MPs, but also hundreds of local community groups, respected charities such as the CPRE and the National Trust, dozens of councils and hundreds of councillors from across the political spectrum. A recent survey showed that over 80% of Conservative councillors opposed the plan to make exploratory drilling permitted development.4 If the government cannot even rely on its own MPs and councillors to support its own policies, it is surely time to reconsider its unwavering support for the fracking industry in this country. UK ENERGY STRATEGY AND JOBS Much has been made by the pro-fracking lobby of the idea that fracking will help the UK maintain its energy security in the coming decades. This assertion is based on a number of myths and does not stand up to scrutiny. Recent research by Professor Calvin Jones at Cardiff Business School5 revealed that we would need to drill one new well every day for 15 years to replace just half of UK gas imports for 2021-2035 with fracked shale gas. This would require 6,100 fracking wells to be drilled across our countryside, as well as associated infrastructure such as gas processing plants, compressor stations and new roads. If gas production proved to be more challenging, these figures could rise to 16,500 wells. Given that the industry has only managed to frack two wells in the last ten years, due to overwhelming local opposition and apparently insurmountable technical issues, it is clear that the there is no conceivable scenario where fracking could make a meaningful contribution to the energy mix before 2030, by which time we need to be moving rapidly towards a low-carbon economy. Even the government’s own Gas Security and Assessment Report6 concluded that fracking was not required to provide energy security for the UK, and fracked gas wasn’t even included in the supply reports referenced in the report. The Clean Growth Strategy report7, which outlined a vision for a low-carbon future for the UK, again did not even mention fracking as part of our future energy mix, but did include the following quote: “Clean growth is not an option, but a duty we owe to the next generation, and economic growth has to go hand-in-hand with greater protection for our forests and beaches, clean air and places of outstanding natural beauty.” The author? None other than the Prime Minister, Theresa May. Despite repeated scaremongering by government ministers and the fracking industry that we are currently reliant on Russia for our gas supply, and that President Putin could ‘turn off the lights’ in the UK, BEIS have stated repeatedly that we only get less than 1% of our gas from Russia and we are ‘no way reliant on it’8. This is confirmed in the 2018 DUKES Report9 (p108, Table 4.2), which shows that last year about 74.9% of the gas imported came by pipeline from Norway, with 12.8% coming as LPG by tanker from Qatar and 9.5% coming via 2 https://drillordrop.com/2018/10/31/plans-to-fast-track-fracking-are-irresponsible-and-downright-bonkers-mp-tells-minister/ 3 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/28/fracking-turning-country-tories-zac-goldsmith-conservative-drilling 4 https://www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/latest-news-releases/item/4927-polling-shows-conservative-councillors-at-odds-with-government-on-plans-to- fast-track-fracking 5 https://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/FOE-Frack-Import-Report_0.pdf 6 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651297/gas-security-supply-assessment.pdf 7 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy 8 http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/latest-news/less-than-1-of-uk-gas-comes-from-russia-contradicting-governments-own-mps-fracking-industry-spin/ 9 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/736148/DUKES_2018.pdf pipeline from Holland and Belgium. This report also shows that in 2017 we only imported 0.13% of our gas from Russia – hardly enough to allow President Putin to turn off our lights. The DUKES report also shows that demand for gas has fallen by 23% since 2000 (p93) and the UK currently exports 26.9% of the gas it produces (p109, Table 4.3). If energy security really was such a pressing issue, surely the UK should be using all the gas it produces, rather than exporting it to other countries. The reason for this state of affairs is that all the gas produced in the UK is not actually owned by the state, but by privately owned companies who sell the gas to the highest bidder.
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