The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is to write to the Prime Minister outlining its opposition to Fracking.
East Riding Councillors have backed a motion opposing fracking in the county.
The council will now write to the Prime Minister to make its views clear.
It comes after the government lifted a ban on fracking but said it would only go ahead in areas where there was local support.
Councillor Linda Johnson says it's a real concern for the East Riding.
The East Riding is one of four areas of the UK to have been identified has having shale formations that could produce gas.
Studies show a prospective shale area stretching in a crescent from north west of Howden through Bubwith, Pocklington, above Driffield to Bridlington.
It is part of the Bowland Shale deposit which spans across Yorkshire and Lancashire and which the British Geological Survey (BGS) estimates could contain 37.6 trillion cubic metres in gas.
The BGS stated in a study it could not accurately predict the amount of gas which could be commercially produced from the Bowland Shale.
Councillor Denis Healy says the council needs to send a clear message to both the government and the shale gas companies.
East Yorkshire is in the Carboniferous Bowland-Hodder Shale Study Area, one of four in Britain which could have deposits commercially viable to explore.
At least seven licence blocks which issued to companies under previous rounds, allowing them to explore for potential deposits, already cover much of the East Riding.
The so-called licence blocks divide up the majority of the East Riding between Rathlin, which also owns the West Newton well site, Caudrilla and INEOS.
They were granted in the middle of the last decade before mounting opposition to fracking over environmental and safety concerns led to the 2019 moratorium.
Prime Minister Liz Truss has said that fracking will only go ahead in places where locals want it.
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