Commenting on the decision by the Lancashire county council planning committee to allow eight more weeks before deciding on Cuadrilla's fracking applications, Greenpeace UK energy and climate campaigner Simon Clydesdale said:
"Allowing more time for Cuadrilla to tinker with their application is not going to change the fundamental fact that fracking is a massive gamble with low returns for the people of Lancashire.
"This deferral is just one more example of Cuadrilla's aggressive lobbying of Lancashire county council to try and get its way despite overwhelming public opposition to fracking.
"The councillors should look again at the mounting evidence of fracking's environmental, health and climate impacts, and put the well-being of their communities before the interests of the shale lobby."
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