North Yorkshire County Council have approved Third Energy's application to frack near Kirby Misperton
Live updates on Monday 23 May 2016
Sarah Urwin
BBC Radio York News
At the meeting in Northallerton to discuss plans to start fracking near Kirby Misperton, operations director of Third Energy, John Dewar, has begun speaking to the committee.
He began by telling the committee that the company motto is: "If something can't be done safely, it isn't done at all".
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The last of the speakers against fracking, Simon Bowens, from Friends of the Earth, told the committee that fracking wells are two to three times more likely to leak than conventional wells.
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Sarah Urwin
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Frank Colenso lives in Hovingham, which is 10 miles from the proposed fracking site at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
He's told the committee that the passion surrounding fracking is on a par with the referendum on a British exit from the European Union.
But he says there's no referendum for North Yorkshire people on fracking and so the committee "must decide for them".
There was a huge cheer from protestors outside as Mr Colenso finished his speech to the committee.
Sarah Urwin
BBC Radio York News
Sarah Houlston farms a mile from the proposed fracking site at Kirby Misperton.
She's just told the committee at County Hall in Northallerton that her livestock drink from a borehole on the farm and says there is no insurance available if it becomes contaminated.
Sarah also tells the committee she asked Third Energy what would happen if her cows drank contaminated water and was told: "Well, it wouldn't do it a lot of good."
Sarah says her children want to take over the farm in the future, which needs safe food, safe water, clean air. She asked the committee to reject fracking.
Councillors in North Yorkshire are meeting again today to continue considering plans to start fracking on a site near Kirby Misperton.
The County Council's planning committee is meeting at County Hall in Northallerton
You can view the agenda and the report for the meeting here, external and you can watch proceedings as they happen right here:
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Sarah Urwin
BBC Radio York News
Professor Nick Cowern has just told the decision committee that the method of fracking being put forward for the site at Kirby Misperton has been banned in the USA this year after new research.
Professor Cowern also said that there are "inadequate plans in place for handling complex, challenging, fracking technology".
Elly Fiorentini
BBC Radio York News
Speakers opposed to allowing fracking to begin in Kirby Misperton have begun to give their views inside County Hall on day two of the meeting.
Professor Nick Cowern is currently setting out his concerns about the dangers of methane gas.
Meanwhile, protestors have started to gather outside:
Sarah Urwin
BBC Radio York News
The first speakers up this morning at County Hall in Northallerton at the meeting to decide whether fracking should go ahead at Kirby Misperton are speaking against the proposals.
The father of a three-year-old child says he'll consider his family's future here if fracking goes ahead.
Meanwhile, a local brewery owner fears fracking will alter public perception about products grown and created in Ryedale.
A grandmother says the stress of working on the campaign against fracking has caused her to become ill.
And another speaker says fracking at Kirby Misperton is "the wrong activity, the wrong place, the wrong time, the wrong people."
As councillors meet to decide whether proposals to carry out fracking on a site at Kirby Misperton should go ahead, here's a little background to the plans.
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Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, York
Today's planning committee meeting at County Hall in Northallerton looking at plans to start fracking near Ryedale actually started way back on Friday morning, but was adjourned on Friday evening with more speakers still to be heard.
Image source, PAA report from the authority's planning department recommends the application from Third Energy to frack at Kirby Misperton is approved, but during Friday we heard many objections to those plans.
The planners' report is only a recommendation, though, and the final decision rests with the 11 councillors on the planning committee, consisting of seven Conservative members, one Labour member, one Lib Dem and two Independents.
Following Friday's objections, today's it's expected we'll hear from several speakers in favour of the application.
We'll be with you throughout the day and into the evening following the latest developments.
It's likely that a vote will be taken on the fracking proposals this evening - but in the meantime here's what happened at the public meeting last week.
During Friday's session examining plans to start fracking at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale, we heard many objections to the proposals by Third Energy. Those included: