"Warrington should be an anti-fracking borough"

MP HELEN Jones is calling for Warrington to become an “anti-fracking borough.”
The Warrington North MP made the call in the wake of the decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse two planning applications for fracking.
She said: “I voted in parliament for a moratorium on fracking because I do not believe the case for the procedure has been adequately made. I believe fracking could wreck many of our villages and suburbs.
“Our communities will be adversely affected by an untried technology which does not have sufficient safeguards.”
Ms Jones (pictured) said Prime Minister David Cameron was trying to “bribe” councils with his proposal to grant local authorities 100 per cent of the business rates they would get from fracking.
“A Tory peer has already suggested fracking should take place in the ‘derelict’ north because proposals in the south would lose thousands of Tory votes.
“Let us make clear that Warrington supports a moratorium on fracking and that we will not be bribed or subject to a process that Tories feel they are unable to pursue in the south of the country.
“We owe a duty of care to our voters and should not support unproven measures which could wreck their communities.”