Fracking in Ringmer?

This is quoted direct from Ringmer News Service:

"Information unearthed by the local Liberal Democrats has revealed that a site listed as ‘Ringmer 1’ is in the latest list of licences for oil and gas exploration that appears on a government website. In the light of the current controversy over fracking at Balcombe, this has the potential to become a big issue locally, though it’s important that its current status is understood.

"Various companies involved in oil and gas exploration apply for licences to explore, but they need planning permission from their local authority to carry out that exploration, and then if they find oil or gas, they need further permission – sometimes a special consent from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) – to bring the oil or gas to the surface. As such, the Ringmer site is two steps away from actual drilling, whether such drilling is  
by the controversial hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) method or not, although the presence of the licence suggests an intention to explore. 

"The DECC website gives only grid references and applicants, from which it appears the Ringmer site is at Barcombe Mills, and the applicant is ‘Conoco’, believed to be the American oil giant Conoco Phillips. The information was obtained by Ringmer’s county councillor Rosalyn St Pierre, the councillor who persuaded East Sussex County Council to put all applications for fracking to a vote of the full council and not to delegate the power to officers. She is keeping tabs on the issue. The 9 August DECC list also includes two sites in Lewes, which from the grid references appear to be at Beddingham and Swanborough."