Our Consultation 

Our community consultation will run from 4 April to 27 May 2011. We are committed to carrying out an extensive consultation and welcome feedback from local people on our proposals.

Comments made at all stages of the consultation process will be recorded and carefully considered by the Project team. Should other potentially viable options be raised during consultation, we will consider their relative merits and report on them. How feedback has been taken into account will be explained by direct communications, local meetings, media and Project updates.

Ultimately, how comments received have shaped and influenced our proposals will be reported to the Infrastructure Planning Commission in a Consultation Report prepared by us which will be made available. Any comments received may, therefore, be submitted either in part or in their entirety to the Infrastructure Planning Commission, including names and addresses supplied.

For more information click here to read our Statement of Community Consultation.

We are listening - your views count

A message from Keith Budinger, Chief Executive of Halite Energy: "We are very pleased to now be sharing our plans for an Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility with the local community and welcome all feedback on our proposed Project.

"We have carried out extensive geological tests to determine the suitability of the Preesall site to store gas and believe that a facility of this nature can be constructed and operated safely, reliably and securely. Through our community consultation we want to demonstrate to you that we have listened to concerns raised in reponse to previous planning applications and get your views on these new proposals.

"The consultation period will run until 27 May 2011, providing nearly two months for you to review detailed information about the proposals, have your questions answered and give feedback on the plans. For an overview of our Project we recommend you read the Project Overview Brochure and the non-technical summary of the Preliminary Environmental Information Report. Following this stage of the consultation we will also provide further information on the next steps in the process and the likely timing for making an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for a Development Consent Order.

"We really do value your views, so please get in touch with us."

Please provide your responses in the following ways by 27 May 2011:

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