Skegness Standard: CLA: Government fracking decision puts land and home owners at risk

The Government’s decision to allow fracking to take place below people’s property without their permission will put home and land owners in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire at risk, says the eastern Country Land and Business Association Ltd.

The Association says that by rejecting over 40,000 objections to controversial changes to trespass law, ministers have failed to properly tackle the issue of long-term liability.

The CLA claim DECC’s response to the Underground Drilling Access Consultation makes it clear the Government plans to progress with changes allowing the shale gas and geothermal industries to drill deep underneath land and property without the owner’s permission, but it still does not make clear who is liable if things go wrong, the CLA warn.

A national report earlier this year quoted British energy firm IGas as saying up to 10 percent of the UK’s gas supply for the next decade could come from shale gas, produced in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
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