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  Charlie has said that he is in favour of shale and coal bed gas extraction using fracking or other methods - just so long as it does not happen in East Kent. Sorry, sounds nimby to me, catch a few more middle class conservatively inclined, new eco warrior votes.
  
  Test drilling has occurred many times over the years around here without any problems from contamination of our water aquifers. The contamination that did occur was from seepage of coal seam water that had been pumped out to prevent flooding of the works.
  
  As I said before, I wouldn't actively campaign to bring the drillers here, but cannot find a rational reason to object to the test drilling and whilst I'd object to actual CBME on the grounds of the known high risk of pollution of the aquifer, even those objections could be overcome if the commercial extractors could prove that water pumped from the seams will be properly purified from its contaminants before release back to the environment.

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