Amid the fields of North Yorkshire, people who once eyed each other with enmity across rolls of razor wire are now walking side by side. A proposed and highly contested fracking site has become the source of clean, green, geothermal energy. In 2016, the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, like many others across Yorkshire and Lancashire, was a magnet for protest campaigners drawn by the threat of fracking.
We need to be telling people this can be done and this is a solution.' The company, which spent a generation supplying gas into Yorkshire, including backing fracking, is now fossil fuel free. 'No going back to fossil fuels' But despite the huge profits being made by gas companies right now, Russell is not tempted to return to using fossil fuels.