Pollution

Town hall leaders have called for flood funding to be made more transparent and devolved to local level, following a highly-critical report by a group of MPs.

While Third Energy has got its planning permission, it is clear that it has failed to obtain a social licence from the local community. The sentiment of those living in Ryedale was overwhelmingly against shale gas development. Their understandable concerns were about the cumulative impact that widespread commercial shale development might have on the North Yorkshire landscape, but we are a long way away from that.