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Campaigners in East Yorkshire oppose ‘utter madness’ of oil and gas drilling plans
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CAMPAIGNERS in rural East Yorkshire are mobilising against the “utter madness” of plans to drill for oil and gas.

The Fossil Free East Yorkshire campaign has been launched to resist proposals to exploit an estimated 189 billion cubic metres of gas and 31 million barrels of oil lying below countryside near the Yorkshire coast.

Oil and gas extraction is already taking place near the village of West Newton, nine miles from the port of Hull.

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