It is now 8 weeks since Cuadrilla unexpectedly started work at Preston New Road. I say unexpectedly because from what we were told they forgot to alert local residents and possibly the police until the day after they started, which was not a very auspicious start to any pretence at...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 2, 2017 · Last modified March 3, 2017
We learned yesterday on the Drill or Drop website that Senior Lancashire County Council councillors have been criticising Cuadrilla‘s record on planning conditions. Marcus Johnson, the cabinet member for environment, planning and cultural services, told the council’s development control committee this morning: “It has to be said that, as we...
Chris Faulkner AKA The Frackmaster An object lesson in how the Oil and Gas industry and its acolytes seem as ready to be taken in by the Emperor’s new clothes as any other bunch of naive and needy people. It only seem like yesterday that the UK fracking industry and...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published February 20, 2017 · Last modified February 21, 2017
On 18th February 2017 the Daily Telegraph published an article with the title “Cuadrilla takes shale activist row to Government as local firms lose out“. In the article the reporter, Jillian Ambrose, states that “Cuadrilla boss Francis Egan has raised concerns with officials in the Home Office, asking that police...
Protest comes in many forms but few a beautiful as this heartfelt song from Andy Severyn, inspired by the trashing of the Valentine’s Day flowers tied to the fencing at Preston New Road. If you have a couple of minutes give it a listen please
Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published February 13, 2017 · Last modified February 18, 2017
Francis Egan has been very keen on playing down the size of his erection, but as everybody driving past the site at Preston New Road can now see, the site is growing bigger every day. It is in fact very helpful that their first development site is being built somewhere...
Over on the stock discussion board “Hot Copper”, investors in Cuadrilla’s parent company AJ Lucas have been getting very jittery as protest slows down developments at Preston New Road. In an effort to rally the troops one investor has been pointing out what a jolly good deal Cuadrilla have snaffled...
A guest post by local businesswoman, Kate Styles, reproduced from her blog with her kind permission So what is a “professional protester”? I see this term a lot, especially in the letters pages when the publication has covered an anti fracking demonstration. Very regularly, we see phrases such as “professional...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published January 27, 2017 · Last modified February 5, 2017
This week Ineos paid to have an 8 page supplement inserted into 10 Johnstone Press titles in and around the midlands. An electronic version of the supplement (which does differ from the print version can be found here) Having analysed the statements made, we have identified no less than 40...
Local engineer Mike Hill has now taken a good look at the recent paper on fracking from the Church of England that the shale gas PR machine rather desperately claimed endorsed fracking. He seems rather unimpressed – you can read his observations here http://media.wix.com/ugd/b0aabf_5902a55b06fd4338a56db38dd8687240.pdf Amusingly the Blackpool Gazette has now...
“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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