Fracking

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 March 2014.

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Photo of Mark Hendrick Mark Hendrick Labour, Preston

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what risk assessments he has made of the effect of fracking on water tables in Lancashire and East Sussex.

Photo of Dan Rogerson Dan Rogerson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Our regulatory regime is robust and will ensure that fracking will take place safely and that our environment, including the quality of our water, is properly protected. The Environment Agency will make an assessment of any chemicals an operator proposes to use in fracking and will not authorise the use of hazardous substances where there is an unacceptable risk they would enter groundwater.

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