Say yes or no to oil exploration in Sedgebrook have your vote right here.
Four million barrels of oil is sitting beneath the village of Sedgebrook Grantham to good to be true well may be not!
A piece of land just off the A52 at Sedgebrook could become a drilling site within months if a planning application to South Kesteven District Council gets the go-ahead.That is only part of the news for the Vale of Belvoir planning applications are in for two more sites at Harleqin and Cropwell Butler.With Bingham, Granby, Belvoir, Sedgebrook to follow!
Now how about this did you know that the UK onshore Oil industry was backed by BP and oil was found in war time at Eakring and the first post war oilfield was discovered at Plungar in the Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire.Visit the Dukes Wood Oil Museum.
Read the press reports.The Indipendent. From Barkston Parish Council. look at the photos!
Planning links below. Harlequin. Cropwell Butler.
So are we going to have JR Ewing flying in. Better get a new stetson ordered and your house could become most sort after as well.It could be a great thing for the area what do you think?
The oil company Newton Energy are a Canadian company based in Nottingham and are hoping to drill two wells of a 1,000 metres deep to collect data 24 hours a day for up to 120 days initially, before deciding whether to drill for oil that may be found. Hard to believe is it ? Then read on. Newton believe that the life-span of the oil reserve is up to 30 years. If you can remember back to the fifties we had "nodding donkeys" in the Vale of Belvoir at Granby and on Belvoir Road on the way to the Castle.
Newton Energy are listed on the Canadian stock market click here to see (TSX-V, NTN)
As with all things in the Vale of Belvoir there will always be objections. The no coal to be mined in the Vale of Belvoir and challenged by the last Duke of Rutland led to just that no mines, no additional jobs, and no real investment in the area. Yes we do not want the countryside wrecked but things that can help many people in this day and age of reccesion need to be considered very carefully. Not everyone is liking the idea of Sedgebrook becoming the new Dallas of Lincolnshire.
The projects that Newton Energy are working on in the Vale of Belvoir are linked below.
Harlequin. Belvoir. Cropwell Butler. Bingham. Sedgebrook. Granby.
Mike Bowyer, Sedgebrook Parish Council vice chairman, is horrified by the idea of an oil rig on the village’s doorstep. Noise, traffic and environmental impact are among the concerns raised. Mr Bowyer said: “It’s a definite, categorical no this is a peaceful village and it’s not on. The site is surrounded by flat fields and noise travels.”Newton Energy’s application warns of up to 30 HGV lorries and other vehicles going to and from the site daily, which Mr Bowyer believes will have a massive impact on the A52.
We ask that could also provide jobs and investment in to the area of the Vale of Belvoir. He also wants wider green issues taken into consideration. He said: “Years of pumping oil out is ludicrous when we are trying, as a nation, to use green energy. The site is not a quarter of a mile from where a plan for a wind farm was turned down.” A meeting to discuss the plans and decide on a course of action will be held by parish council members.
Aware noise levels could affect people living locally, Newton Energy’s leading consultant Michael Frey said the firm will do what it can to form a good relationship with villagers. He said: “The last thing in the world we want is to have anybody make the incorrect assumption that we’re a big oil company throwing our weight around with no consideration. In particular because BP hasn’t done our industry any favours in the last few months.