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Shale Gas

My hon. Friend the Member for Southport (John Pugh) has referred to ““fear and greed””, but is there not another concept that relates to what the hon. Gentleman has just said, which is, ““What is in it for us?”” Many of the people in my local area are too used now to wind farms being built on hills, which are owned by financiers miles away and the local people see no benefit from them, and wind farms being built out at sea, which are driving the fishing fleets away and, again, they are yet to see any benefit themselves. Local people's fear about shale gas—or their view about, ““What's in it for us?””—is that suddenly these companies will come along, that they will extract the shale gas and that there will be very few job opportunities for the local area. Potentially, millions will be made out of shale gas production, but not for the local area.