With the tedious media focus on any old drivel that emanates from Nigel Farage or “Dubai Dicky” Tice, the subject of fracking is rearing its ugly head again on various social media sites. Perhaps inevitably, its proponents are relying on the suggestion that it will bring down UK energy prices....
Gainsborough / Industry Tactics / Locations
by Refracktion · Published February 27, 2025 · Last modified February 28, 2025
Questionable fracking claims are not exactly new, but we did think they might have gone away or at least been given a quiet retirement. After all, it hardly seems like 5 minutes since climate campaigners were celebrating the appearance of decommissioning equipment at Cuadrilla’s site at Preston New Road. Then...
With Liz Truss’s backing fracking policy in disarray, the industry is starting to realise that that its reprieve might be rather short lived, so we are seeing a concerted (if not very successful) attempt to influence public opinion by pushing the usual buttons. Charles McAllister of industry mouthpiece UKOOG has...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 8, 2022 · Last modified October 10, 2022
Ever since we learned that the moratorium on fracking might be lifted we’ve been wondering when we’d have the pleasure of hearing Lorraine Allanson and Ken Wilkinson performing their shameless double act again. Listening to Tom Swarbrick on LBC yesterday we finally got to hear them both again when they...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 3, 2022 · Last modified October 4, 2022
So Mr Rees-Mogg’s definition of local support might not be quite the same as that of most local people. After all compensation is not consent
Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Regulation / Seismicity
by Refracktion · Published September 30, 2022
Today Mark Menzies was interviewed by Radio Lancashire and asked some very pertinent questions about local consent for fracking and how it might be measured. It’s worth a listen.
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published September 29, 2022 · Last modified October 3, 2022
Net Zero Watch (a retread of The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) are not usually particularly transparent, particularly when it comes to their sources of funding as we can see here: Their motives though are though quite transparent when it comes to some of their “demands”. After all, we know...
Media / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 29, 2022 · Last modified October 3, 2022
This morning Prime Minister, Liz Truss, gave a series of car crash interviews on BBC local radio stations. Quizzed by Graham Liver on BBC Radio Lancashire, she struggled to explain what she meant by local consent and why she felt fracking should go ahead here in Lancashire. During the short...
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 21, 2022 · Last modified September 22, 2022
The TLS is needed, but it is not fit for purpose and needs to be tightened up not relaxed! We last addressed this issue back in February 2019 when the fracking industry was desperately lobbying government to allow them to carry on regardless of the induced seismic activity that everyone...
Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 11, 2022
In yesterday’s Sunday Express an open letter from a number of the usual suspects (Brexity types turned climate change mitigation avoiders) like Tim Martin and Lance Forman claims: The United Kingdom has enough natural gas to take back control of our energy policy at least until we have developed nuclear...
“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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