Cuadrilla’s new survey is clutching at straws again
We are all for constructive public discourse, but it needs to be based on the truth! If one party keeps misleading the other the dialogue just can’t happen can it?
Yearly Archive: 2012
Happy Christmas!
It has been an eventful year hasn’t it? (LOL) I don’t think many of us expected to be campaigning against fracking this time last year (or wanted to be doing so) – so much of what happened before just went under the radar. I want to thank those of you...
We are about to lose the power to decide for ourselves
The government’s Growth and Infrastructure Bill 2012-13 had its first reading in the House of Lords on 18 December, 2012. Why should you care? Because if it is allowed through then your local council and county council will have no power at all to decide on issues like fracking. Instead...
Laughing with the Daily Mail
It’s not every day that we find the Daily Mail’s coverage of the fracking debate amusing. We are rather more used to laughing at it than with it. Sometimes, as with their badly researched advice in the Money Mail article “Dare investors take a bet on fracking?”, where they suggest...
Just how much can we trust Cuadrilla
One of the very interesting things to come out of yesterday was the information that Cuadrilla’s engineers did not tell their senior management about the earth tremors which occurred near Blackpool in April and May 2011. You can see Leon Jennings, Health, Safety & Environment Director at Cuadrilla Resources giving...
The Office for Unconventional Gas and Mark Menzies MP (Contd)
We commented earlier this week about the fact that Mr Menzies appeared inordinately pleased with his failure to secure an independent panel to oversee shale gas regulation. Of course we didn’t just comment here, we wrote to him as well. Yesterday he raised the issue again in parliament to Energy...
The Office for Unconventional Gas and Mark Menzies MP
How very disappointing to read Mark Menzies MP’s comment in the Lytham St Annes Express about how satisfied he is about the creation of The Office for Unconventional Gas. One of those positives of course was the creation of the Office for Unconventional Gas – a direct response I feel...
Time to object to Cuadrilla’s application to respud Anna’s Road
Application number 05/12/0729 – Anna’s Road Westby Cuadrilla have applied for permission to extend their drilling as a result of their mistake at Anna’s Road. Comments and objections need to be received by 24th December. http://planningregister.lancashire.gov.uk/PlanAppDisp.aspx?recno=6193
A broadside of bullshit from the government
There has been an outpouring of articles in the press over the last few days from the usual suspects on the Conservative Right. A veritable broadside of bullshit from the government. Lord Lawson posted a particularly fatuous example in the Daily Mail on Friday. If you want to see why...
The Office for Unconventional Gas
What we do NOT need is another government body costing more tax payers’ money and making life easier for Mr Osborne’s friends like Lord Browne by “streamlining” and “simplifying” the already inadequate regulatory regime.
