Yearly Archive: 2013

Balcombe News Flash via Fracking Digest

Balcombe News Flash via Fracking Digest

Balcombe NEWSFLASH! – orginally posted on the http://www.frackingdigest.co.uk/ site Cuadrilla have withdrawn their applications for modifying their existing application (6 months extra time, and the modified flaring). That’s the good news. The bad news is that they plan to put in a new application, on 27th September. It might take...

We need MORE not LESS regulation

We need MORE not LESS regulation

New government guidelines proposed suggest fracking companies will not have to let you know about their plans to drill under your property! We learn in the consultation document that The Government is minded to amend the notice requirements for applications for planning permission for under ground oil and gas operations....

Fracking and health issues

Fracking and health issues

[A guest post by Alan Tootill] The newly released preliminary results on health problems in just one Pennsylvania county allegedly due to fracking have just appeared. The verdict appears to indicate there may be more problems due to air pollution that water pollution. It’s worth quoting the central points –...

What?  No yurts!

What? No yurts!

[A guest blog post from Gary Liggett] When Margaret Thatcher’s former press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham branded people who are concerned about fracking: “blinkered totalitarians, who want us live in yurts and wigwams”, I was somewhat taken aback.  [Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2399955/Fracking-protestors-blinkered-totalitarians-want-live-yurts-wigwams-says-Thatchers-press-secretary.html]  My immediate reaction was: this description doesn’t fit the many...

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Those 200 wells continued

At Professor Styles suggestion we decided to trace where his unambiguous claim in the Daily Telegraph of 10th August 2013 that “It is not a new technology, we have had 200 wells fracked in England and no one has even noticed.” came from. He told us he had got his...

Private Eye – The Fracking Issue!

Private Eye – The Fracking Issue!

This week’s Private Eye (1347) turns out to be a veritable treasure trove of fracking related content 🙂 I think we can safely say that the fracking issue is “mainstream” now! We’d love to show you more but we received this today (28 August) and we know how good Private...

Congratulations to Dan Byles

Congratulations to Dan Byles

Dan Byles and his All-Party Group on Fracking made the first page of Private Eye this week! Private Eye are at last waking up to some of the questionable aspects of this government’s much vaunted “Dash for Gas” and in todays’ issue 1347 they raise some interesting questions about arch...

Peter Lilley doesn’t exactly shine

Peter Lilley doesn’t exactly shine

In an interview with Radio 5 live in which he was “debating” the goings on at Balcombe with Vanessa Vine of Frack Free Sussex, Peter Lilley repeatedly stated that nearly 200 wells have been fracked in the UK already and that this technique had been going on for decades without...

The government doing our PR for us on Newsnight?

The government doing our PR for us on Newsnight?

David Morris MP on Newsnight talking about what he calls the “escavations” (sic) give us this trenchant analysis of Cuadrilla’s safety measures. We think he’s doing his rather uneducated best to talk about triple casings. “There is evidence there to suggest that Cuadrilla have three triplicate wells, triplicate oil wells,...