Would you be happy for fracking to happen under your home without your permission?

[SalisburyMummy]

It's expected the law will soon be changed soon to allow drilling under people's homes without their permission. I think this is awful since it would mean a fracking well nearby belting out toxic emissions. It seems very wrong to me that local people don't have any say :(

Apologies for two soons!

SalisburyMummy .... personally I'm not up to speed with the current news on Fracking re the peoples rights (or lack of them), but over on Politics we had a right old ding dong of a thread going looking at different issues, with poster flipflop21 giving a great account of herself re the personal and environmental issues of fracking, across 6-pages.

So if this thread runs out of energy (ahem), you might find some interesting/qualified facts over there, especially from flipflop21.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/politics/1845522-FRACKING

Am always happy to chip in with a new one though! I think you started the last one didn't you SalisburyMummy?

Local people aren't being given a say. People think that they are protected as in they are in urban areas, national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty. The truth is, and I am happy to be corrected, that the minimum distance between a drilling site and a home is 250m. If they can get permission to drill in leafy Sussex villages it's likely that they will get permission to drill anywhere.

The law is changing so that they can drill under your home - so if you live within a couple of miles of a drilling pad (which many of us will be if all goes ahead as planned) then many of us will be affected by this change in the law. There is some evidence to show that insurance companies won't protect your home against damage caused by fracking.

Lucky they're only letting reputable companies go ahead and that the "robust regulation" in place is being vigilantly monitored and adhered to .