Action / Balcombe / Campaigning / Information Level - Basic
by Refracktion · Published September 3, 2013
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 – orginally posted on the http://www.frackingdigest.co.uk/ site Cuadrilla have withdrawn their applications for modifying their existing application (6 months extra time, and the modified flaring).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...
Dangers / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 2, 2013 · Last modified September 3, 2013
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....
[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 –...
[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...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 23, 2013 · Last modified October 7, 2013
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...
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...
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...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified August 20, 2013
Having heard Peter Lilley asserting that we have had 200 wells fracked already in this country without anybody noticing I thought I would go straight to the horse’s mouth to try to get some substantiation for this claim. In the Daily Telegraph of 10th August 2013 Peter Style, Professor in...
Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified August 19, 2013
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...
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,...
“They are lifting the ban, but they cannot supply the evidence, and the British Geological Survey report published today certainly does not do it. So in the absence of the evidence, his approach is to change the safety limits.
I look forward to him and his colleagues explaining his charter for earthquakes to the people of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the midlands, Sussex, Dorset and, indeed, Somerset who will be part of his dangerous experiment. Let me tell the Conservatives that we will hang this broken promise round their necks in every part of the country between now and the next general election."
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"Additional UK production won’t materially affect the wholesale market price. This includes fracking – UK producers won’t sell shale gas to UK consumers below the market price. They’re not charities."
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