Large number of villagers turn out in opposition to Fracking in Harthill with Woodall

This stunning photograph is of the proposed INEOS Fracking site at Harthill with Woodall in South Yorkshire. It seems hard to believe that this beautiful ancient landscape may soon be ruined forever.

A large number of local residents from Harthill, Woodall and Thorpe Salvin met yesterday evening in Harthill, South Yorkshire in opposition to the proposed INEOS plan to Frack on land off Common Road, Harthill.

This ancient rural landscape could vanish forever if the INEOS request to Frack for Shale Gas is allowed to go ahead. Locals are worried by the despoliation and creeping industrialisation of this beautiful landscape that would be ruined by a 60 metre drilling rig only 700 metres from the nearest village property for approximately five years.

The community are also concerned by the possibility of a continual convoy of endless large lorries travelling down the narrow village roads and lanes for years to come to access the site to supply drilling equipment and to take away the contaminated water and chemical soup that is a byproduct of fracking.

Villagers fear for their family's health due to increased air pollution from the Fracking rig and also contamination of the water table and the land above it.

Another meeting is planned where a formal plan of action will be agreed to counter the threat to this beautiful landscape.