OR/15/067 Foreword

Smedley, P, Ward, R, Allen, G, Baptie, B, Daraktchieva, Z, Jones, D, Jordan, C, Purvis, R and Cigna, F. 2015. Site selection strategy for environmental monitoring in connection with shale-gas exploration: Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire and Fylde, Lancashire. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/15/067.

This report describes the site selection procedures undertaken in respect of baseline environmental monitoring connected with unconventional hydrocarbon extraction in northern England. The project has been grant-funded by the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) and is being undertaken during the period September 2015 to March 2016.