FRACKING could mean hundreds of pounds a year for homeowners and tens of millions of pounds in community funding, according to the operations director of one of the three firms hoping to bring shale gas extraction to Barnsley.
Most of the Barnsley area falls within fracking licences granted to three different firms.
Tom Pickering, operations director at Ineos, says the firm’s owner has vowed that six per cent of the revenue from and gas it is able to harvest here will go back to the community.
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