![]() ![]() ![]() This work is internationally unique and comprises an inter-disciplinary researcher-led programme that is developing, testing and implementing monitoring methodologies to enable future environmental changes to be detected at a local scale (individual site) as well as across a wider area where cumulative impacts may be significant. Continued monitoring will then enable any deviations from the baseline, should they occur, to be identified and investigated independently to determine the possible causes, sources and significance to the environment and public health. This monitoring will enable future changes that may occur as a result of industrial activity to be identified and differentiated from other natural and man-made changes that are influencing the baseline. The baseline survey, initiated in early 2015, is aimed to determine the preexisting conditions of the site ahead of any shale gas development. This is the area where planning permission has been granted for hydraulic fracturing. British Geological Survey (BGS), along with the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and York and partners from Public Health England (PHE), is conducting an independent envir onmental baseline monitoring programme in the Vale of Pickering (Yorkshire) and in Lancashire. ![]()
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