After listening to 2 long days of excellent evidence from more than 70 of those opposed to fracking North Yorkshire County Council delivered a shock result that Third Energy’s application to frack the KM8 well at Kirby Misperton should be passed. The fight continues!
Opponents of fracking vowed to continue their fight following the approval by North Yorkshire County Council of what could be the first fracked well in the UK for over five years.
At just before 7pm, the council’s planning committee voted by seven to four in favour of Third Energy’s application to frack its existing well at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. The decision, after two long days of evidence and discussion, came despite more than 4,000 objections and a petition of more than 2,500 signatures.
Campaigners against the proposal, more than 70 of whom addressed the committee, promised the fight wasn’t over.
Friends of the Earth and the local group, Frack Free Ryedale, said they were considering a judicial review.
