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Infrastructure bill - Tories ignoring their voters - bdavies (16th Oct 2014 - 11:25:48) You may or may no know that, regarding the recent infrastructure bill amendment (Trespass Law), this government blatantly ignored the voices of tens of thousands of responders in an open consultation where 99% of those respondents opposed. To add insult to injury, last minute amendments were made to make the bill even worse for land and property owners and everyone else for that matter. That amendment was added AFTER the consultation and proves how desperate the coalition is to help fracking companies peddle their dirty industry. Apparently the bill now includes an amendment by Baroness Kramer, the Liberal Democrat minister guiding the bill through the Lords, that permits the “passing of any substance through, or putting any substance into, deep-level land” and gives “the right to leave deep-level land in a different condition from before including by leaving any infrastructure or substance in the land”. The government decided to push ahead with the trespass law change despite vast opposition to it during the consultation. There were a total of 40,647 responses to the consultation on the move to give oil and gas companies underground access without needing to seek landowners’ permission, with 99% opposing the legal changes. Ministers have also been accused of rushing legal changes through parliament at the start of 2014, which removed the need to notify each home in an area of fracking plans. Consider this at the next election. Liphook is right in the middle of a not insignificant shale gas field and much of the surrounding land is outside of the national park so not protected. Potentially we could have well-heads established around us and we have no legal right whatsoever to oppose or prevent drilling near our properties, whether we are landowners or just normal householders.

Re: Infrastructure bill - Tories ignoring their voters - ellie (16th Oct 2014 - 13:03:56) I agree it is wrong, but the outlying areas of Liphook were surveyed by celtique and the conclusion was there was not enough found underneath to justify fracking in the immediate area of Liphook I presume the sttempt to frack at Fernhurst meant they found more there.

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