YOUR front page article suggesting Tynedale fracking bids will be unlikely ( Courant , May 27) is less than reassuring.

You offer some general and debatable comments by Coun. Kelly, who says he is open-minded about fracking.

And you have a statement by a Northumberland National Park spokesman, although large areas of Tynedale are not in the park.

You have no comment from our usually ubiquitous MP. Even were the headline accurate, the unlikely has a habit of happening, as do unexpected consequences.

Then your editorial on fracking starts with: “In the week that planning permission was granted for fracking in a rural backwater of North Yorkshire”.

The people of the important village concerned, Kirby Misperton, a Ryedale parish in the Vale of Pickering, seem determined to continue to oppose fracking after Conservative-controlled North Yorkshire County Council voted to allow it.

The Conservative home website, in reference to Kirby Misperton, has said: “It’s good news that the British shale gas industry is another step closer to reality.”

Three years ago, the diversely-funded National Geographic had a detailed and disturbing article on the fracking process.

Each of us needs to get informed and then openly support or oppose an activity from which some wish to benefit financially at the expense of others and of the environment.

GEOFF HOLMES,

Sinderhope