00:00We've been asked to remind you that we are live-streaming, so yeah, if we can keep the language just a little temperate, that's okay.
00:09And on fracking, we have a question here from somebody who is asking,
00:13can any candidate here today please assure the community that this will not happen here in Lancashire or anywhere else for that matter?
00:23So that's fracking. Can you give a cast-iron commitment it won't happen? Tom?
00:28I apologise for my language as well, because I think that one was aimed at me.
00:35We said we'll ban fracking, we'll have no new coal. We are moving to net zero.
00:40Why would we open new fossil fuel sites?
00:42So when it comes to the quadrennial sites here in the file, that they can clean up those sites and then they can clear off.
00:48Definitely I don't want fracking.
01:01At Christmas I read the voting history of our MP who stood on a fracking site and then voted for fracking.
01:11So I just hope that we're going to run, whoever gets in is fair, is truthful and is voting for how we want to.
01:21But no fracking in the file.
01:23I completely agree and I would be against fracking in the file or anywhere else in the country.
01:32I think what we need is a long-term solution for our energy security and therefore looking at effectively what is not fully proven
01:42and test bed sites for future energy is not the way to give us the rapid deployment of energy security that we need
01:50and we need to be looking more at mini nuclear plants would be my answer.
01:54So no list style plan to allow fracking if there was local support in that unlikely event?
02:00I'm incredibly surprised it's taken this long in the Hustings for someone to bring up list trust actually.
02:04Absolutely no list trust down the line.
02:13So I campaigned against fracking here in Lancashire when I was a council councillor.
02:19A Lancashire council councillor, I voted against it when it came to the council.
02:23Within the Liberal Democrat manifesto it explicitly says we are against fracking and any new coal mines as well.
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