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    Blackpool Gazette: Council Backs Call to Open Fracking Files

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Lancashire council, located where Cuadrilla Resources has a shale interest in the UK, has called on the government to release a full report on fracking's impact

by: Erica Mills

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Blackpool Gazette: Council Backs Call to Open Fracking Files

Lancashire councillors have backed a motion asking the Government to release a full report on shale gas exploration.

The Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report considers the economic and social effects of opening up large parts of rural Britain to shale exploration.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was forced to publish the report last spring after a Freedom of Information request on behalf of Greenpeace, but it was heavily redacted, with more than 60 passages blacked out, including passages about the effect on house prices of fracking.

Lancashire councillors will vote by the end of April on whether to approve plans by energy firm Cuadrilla Resources to frack at two sites in Little Plumpton and Roseacre.

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