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31st
May 2012
EGDON SEEKS
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR NATIONAL PARK BOREHOLE
Egdon
Resources plc (“Egdon”), the AIM-listed oil and gas exploration and production
company, has formally submitted an application for a 3-year temporary planning
consent to drill an exploratory borehole near the village
of Westerdale in the North York Moors
National Park .
The company
wants to drill a well on land south of Broad Gate Farm and build two short
access tracks to the wellsite.
The
application to the National Park Authority follows a public exhibition in
Westerdale Village Hall on March 16, attended by Egdon Managing Director Mark
Abbott and other members of his team.
Mr Abbott
commented: “As a result of our consultation, we have made a number of
amendments to our original proposals, notably in connection with the bridleway
adjacent to the proposed wellsite. It
was clear from the feedback we received that our proposal to close this path
for six months was not popular.
“However,
following discussions with National Park staff, we now propose to keep it open
and will erect signs, warning users of the presence of construction vehicles.”
Mr Abbott
added that a feature of the exhibition had been the very positive attitude by
the public to the proposals as a whole.
“I think this
was because there is a general acceptance of the need to exploit our
recoverable gas resources and also because of their experience of our previous
attempt to find gas in the area in 2006,” he explained. “We strive to be good
neighbours and the site of that first borehole has now been fully restored to a
high standard.”
If planning
consent is granted, the company expects the exploratory drilling operation to
last for no more than six weeks, after which the rig and associated equipment
will be dismantled. Only the concrete
base will remain while the results of the drilling are analysed.
If
commercially-viable quantities of gas are found, a new planning permission will
have to be sought before it can be exploited.
ENDS
(email: simon@simon-mountford.co.uk )
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