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As a new resident of Guston I was very worried to hear that the Guston court farm has allowed a planning application for borehole drilling to be made to the council.
This application raises a number of issues for me, from job creation fallacies to potential poisons injected into our local community.
As for new job creation, it is almost highly certain that these drilling companies will bring their own work force with them, this isn't a good employer like john lewis coming to the area, it's an oil & gas company, for those old enough to remember the JR Ewings of the world aren't people I'd like as neighbours.
In the US fracking seems to be working, but you have to remember that land size of England is a tiny compared to America (40 England's can fit in to America's land mass). So fracking in the US can go ahead without damaging nearby communities, our island is too small for this. Ask yourself why countries like France have banned this exploration?
If you are injecting chemicals into the land to crack rock to release gas, then these chemicals are bound to get into our drinking water eventually. The lorries delivering these chemicals will also risk spillage.
Guston is a tiny village with a nice little pub and an 11th century church, the surrounding countryside brings many tourists to dover and its environs. Sunday mornings you'll see many people walking through the plentiful footpaths that zig zag along the coast & countryside as well as cyclists on the very country lanes that will be clogged up by this development. Do you really want to lose this?
Personally this issue for me isn't about nimbyism, as the vista from where i live won't be effected but this is about big business getting licences to drill and possibly ruin & poison our land and our drinking water and clog up our little country lanes.
If you want to see Dover turned into the new Milford Haven, then I say sit back and watch but if don't then do something. For me this is the first time I've written on a forum (and its taken me 3hrs to be able to post this) and tomorrow I hope I can make the council meeting in Whitfield and the parish meeting in Burgoyne heights the following evening. If anything, I want to stay informed and if I can stop the increasing need and greed of these energy companies exploiting and damaging our land then I will. I can't sit by and let this pass without comment. I agree Dover needs jobs but lets regenerate the town where there's far too many empty shops & offices!