His company is offering the local community £100,000 if it is permitted to frack the well, plus a percentage of royalties if commercial fracking goes ahead.
It reckons Balcombe and the south are likely to be behind Lancashire – where Cuadrilla has already fracked – for commercial fracking in the UK.
Scotland has had a moratorium on commercial fracking and coalbed methane drilling since January 2015, and Wheelhouse said on Thursday he would publish a set of scientific papers on fracking and open up a public consultation later this autumn.
A ban on commercial fracking has been imposed in France, and in Pennsylvania people living close to fracking sites have been filmed setting fire to tap water contaminated with methane gas.
The "scale of commercial fracking" unleashed by the Government's eagerness to exploit the technique "should not be underestimated", it cautions.
first commercial computer, 1953.
Shipped first commercial copy 1 year later.
Their first commercial vintage was 2009.
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