.. or not perhaps. We are very used to hearing that councillors can’t attend open meetings for fear of being seen to be prejudiced and barred from voting on any issues. Normally we see this as being a technical and unnecessary restriction which stops elected representatives from getting properly informed...
United Utilities have announced that they are in discussion with Cuadrilla over arrangements for “potential opportunities for working together” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10192753/United-Utilities-opens-talks-with-Cuadrilla-over-fracking-deal.html They also have a consultation open on their Water Resources Management Plan open until 6th August 2013 Please email them at water.resources@defra.gsi.gov.uk using the heading “United Utilities Water Resources Management...
If you ever waver in questioning what you are being told by the government about fracking and start to think that they are really being straight with you, just listen again to Lord Lawson on Radio 4’s “Any Questions” as he tries to explain away the dangers of fracking. https://www.refracktion.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lawson.mp3...
The government today announced it’s subsidy package for fracking companies. The result will be huge tax cuts – from 62% to 30%, but even rabid pro-frackers like Peter Lilley admit that they are not needed! Lilley said in parliament as recently as yesterday that I was the only member of...
The cartoon does exaggerate for effect, but then do does Dan Byles MP when he speaks in parliament on the benefits 🙂
Environment / Health Risks / Political Issues / Property Damage
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
For a variety of reasons, the expectation of the number of shale gas wells needing to be drilled in the UK deserves a wider discussion than it has had so far. The suspicion is that the topic is one which the industry and the pro-fracking government want to avoid. Indeed...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
In order to justify the dash for gas, the Government is relying on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to allow them to claim that shale gas will not breach existing commitments to climate change gas emission reductions. The problem is that for all their waffle, it just isn’t happening As...
This from Alan Tootill – But before we quote his comments, it seems that the government doesn’t really understand EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery rates) or is hopelessly optimistic about them. Either way that’s rather worrying! The maths is rather simple – to calculate the number of wells required to extract...
Local MP Mark Menzies spoke in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday. He suggested that the interpretation of “well site” for the £100k payment during the exploration/appraisal stage in the OFFUGO charter should be per well and not per well site. It is therefore important for the...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 17, 2013 · Last modified September 11, 2013
We are very unimpressed with the claims made in the recent IoD report on shale gas that there might be 74,000 jobs created by the government’s dash for gas. We recently tried to raise this with Dan Byles MP who does keep repeating the claim On July 12th we wrote...
“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."
Parliament 22 September 2022
"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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Take the advice of Greg Clark, ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
"Those who are prepared to organise to be more effective and more efficient should be able to reap substantially the rewards of that boldness ...
Take power now. Don’t let yourself, any longer, be ruled by someone else"
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