When is a “truck movement” one movement and when is it two movements? Well it’s one movement when you want to convince people fracking won’t have as much impact as it really will. Thus, in the Institute of Directors’ report “Getting Shale Gas Working” we see figures for truck movements...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Advanced / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 6, 2015 · Last modified August 3, 2016
UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG)is the trade body which, amongst other things, promotes fracking to the nation. On their “What it looks like” web page until very recently they made the following claim about truck movements per well pad: Now 300 truck movements a year is less than 1...
Maybe it is unreasonable to expect an MP, possibly promoted above their real ability to ministerial rank, to be a master of all of the nuances of their new brief. However, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect an Energy Minister to know whether UK energy demand is increasing or has...
Environment / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 25, 2015 · Last modified September 26, 2015
CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration) has been hailed as a sort of silver bullet by those who want us to accept UK shale gas as a bridge fuel to a future based on renewable fuels. Without it it is clear that if we are to meet our climate change obligations...
Campaigning / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 20, 2015
I have spent some time over on a Facebook page apparently run by an anonymous group who describe themselves “as a group of UK residents that are backing fracking to create jobs in areas where they are needed most” Leaving aside the credibility issues they have by insisting on remaining...
Well think again! Here is a timeline from Egdon Resources that shows that they hope to persuade investors that 2016 will be the year when fracking is let loose on the UK Now there IS a reason behind this optimism – according to the presentation it is taken from they...
This morning on Radio 4’s “Today” programme we were treated to a rare pleasure. I would really like to say that is was listening to some sort of Damascene conversion on the part of the interviewee, but it was more like listening to the soundtrack of a rat, sitting on...
When they set up the astroturfing groups on Facebook they do like to claim that they welcome comment from all sides, but clearly some of them don’t really want comment from people who are prepared to counter their propaganda. I was hugely amused when “Blackpool Fracking For a Better Future” ...
The internet has been loaded with images of dead children on beaches and many of us are questioning our own country’s response (or lack of it) to this crisis. Nearly a quarter of a million people have signed the Independent’s petition saying that “Britain must accept its fair share of...
Public Opinion / The National Frackery
by Refracktion · Published September 3, 2015 · Last modified September 4, 2015
It seems that a fracking company persuaded Mr & Mrs Andrews to lease some of their estate for fracking. Sadly it seems the business entity which owned the well went bust (although their parent company carries merrily on). Mr and Mrs Andrews are left with the expense of remediation of...
“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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"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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