DRAX is investing in four new gas fired power stations.

It would not be doing this unless the Government had agreed to make the gas available.

It would appear therefore that the Conservative Party is determined to override the will of the vast majority in North Yorkshire and will frack on a massive scale in Ryedale.

Of course this will destroy the tourist industry, pollute farmland and injure children’s health.

Climate scientists have warned we have to actually start extracting CO2 from the atmosphere to stop global warming from accelerating, but the Government is bent on helping their friends in the oil and gas industry to burn methane.

We know the UK has a world-beating rich source of tidal power, and tidal lagoons could provide 35 per cent of the UK’s energy requirement.

New York State banned fracking as a danger to health. But here in the UK short term gain is evidently more important than health or the climate.

Chris Clayton, Hempland Drive, York