This dataset contains weekly volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurements from the Little Plumpton site.

British Geological Survey (BGS), the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and York and partners from Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), are conducting an independent environmental baseline monitoring programme near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire and Little Plumpton, Lancashire. These are areas where planning permission has been granted for hydraulic fracturing.

The monitoring allows the characterisation of the environmental baseline before any hydraulic fracturing and gas exploration or production takes place in the event that planning permission is granted. The investigations are independent of any monitoring carried out by the industry or the regulators, and information collected from the programme will be made freely available to the public.

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If you use these data, please note the requirement to acknowledge use.

Use of data and information from the project:
"Science-based environmental baseline monitoring associated with shale gas development in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire (including supplementary air quality monitoring in Lancashire)", led by the British Geological Survey

Permission for reproduction of data accessed from the CEDA website is granted subject to inclusion of the following acknowledgement:
"These data were produced by the Universities of Manchester and York (National Centre for Atmospheric Science) in a collaboration with the British Geological Survey and partners from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool and Public Health England, undertaking a project grant-funded by the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC), 2015-2016. "
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