Pat is the Secretary of the Kent Green Party. She is a retired teacher of English and a published author.

Part of this strategy would include declaring Canterbury District a frack-free zone. Flooding at the site of a borehole drilled to extract unconventional gas would precipitate an environmental disaster and an unacceptable health hazard. Planning applications for exploratory boreholes just over the border in Dover District were withdrawn last year after it was recognised they would pose a serious risk of contaminating the drinking water of over 70% of households in the county. The same risk applies within our District and the question of such operations must be answered with an emphatic No.