Meeting for Sufferings: Fracking concern from Pendle Hill

Friends in Pendle Hill Area Meeting raised a concern over shale fracking in the area

by George Osgerby 10th February 2017

Increasing concern over fracking for shale gas in Britain was the subject of a minute to Meeting for Sufferings from Pendle Hill Area Meeting.

Drilling to see if fracking is feasible is often conducted despite widespread opposition in an area. A Friend said he was ‘particularly perturbed about the overriding of local political concern’.