Howard J Curtis of Liverpool asks why the shale gas and oil under the South Downs national park is not being exploited (Letters,17 October). He needs to check his facts. Oil is being extracted from under the South Downs (in Lidsey, Markwells Wood, and Singleton and Storrington,for example), there are applications for four wells, or including horizontal drilling at Markwells Wood,and there is a site at Broadford Bridge that was prepared by one company, and which is now on the action list by another to bring in a drill. The issues haven’t gone absent from Balcombe either.
And I do thing to such activity taking place, or not only here in West Sussex but also elsewhere,including Lancashire and North Yorkshire, when the climate change issues need to be addressed, and quickly.
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Source: theguardian.com