• Cuadrilla submits new planning application
• Large pad with 4 horizontal shale gas wells
• Plan to be drilled and fracked over 2 years
• Second site nearby, application public soon
• Plans tailored to hide impacts at this stage
• Trying to advance project without opposition
• But application reveals many lurking issues
• Would become critical at production stage
• One site takes 7% of region’s spare water
• Full scale fracking would overwhelm system
• Threat to water supply of 6.6 million people
• Site would use 65% of fracking waste capacity
• Vast new frac waste disposal system needed
• Most waste not treatable, would accumulate
• Site requires over 20,000 vehicle movements
• Production needs water/waste storage ponds
• Wake up call for communities to get organised

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