Howard, really
have you become the conspiracy theorists friend?
The companies that the KCC Pension fund is invested in are primarily oil and gas companies which currently derive a relatively tiny proportion of their income from activities and extraction obtained through fracking - it is quite misleading to describe them as fracking companies. Coastal Oil and Gas is not a fracking company either - it is an exploration and extraction company that is not currently involved in any actual fracking and recognises that in East Kent the most commercially rewarding gas availability is in the coal seams which do not require hydraulic fracturing, so they won't be fracking here either.
The Coal Seams here in East Kent are underlain by Carboniferous Limestone which fracking is unlikely to yield any commercial quantities of gas - so the coal seams is where the gas may be sufficiently rich, no fracking, and the issues are all around how well isolated the wells are from the rocks through which they pass on their way to the seams and then what happens with the coal seam water - is it recirculated in a closed loop creating a venturi effect to lower the pressure in the seam sufficiently to realease the gas in the same way as happens at Doe Green? or is it removed and treated before release to the environment to reduce the pressure in the seam and release the gas? If the latter, what are the safe guards, how will contaminants be removed, etc.
From my limited knowledge, groups like Tracey's at Guston asking sensible questions which come from the real issues are ensuring that KCC, the EA and Coastal Oil and Gas take their questions very seriously and that Tracey and other sensible people like her are in fact being listened to.