Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published November 27, 2015 · Last modified December 1, 2015
Opponents of shale gas exploitation here in the Fylde are well used to watching our MP, Mr Mark Menzies, sitting on the fence and claiming credit for having done something when in fact he is just doing a very good impersonation of the dog in “His Master Voice”. Back in...
Sometimes the fracking industry tries too hard and leaves themselves open to ridicule Shell made this “Oh So Clever” “arty” French love story to push “natural” gas It wasn’t long before this drew this far cleverer response from Brazil’s Observatório do Clima which makes Shell’s efforts look totally lame and...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published November 27, 2015
The Secretary of State (Greg Clark) is to call in Cuadrilla’s two fracking appeals in Lancashire. The Planning Inspector will still produce a report but the decision will be made at Westminster. The reason given is that the drilling appeals (3134385 and 3134386) involve proposals for exploring and developing shale...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 22, 2015 · Last modified January 16, 2016
In the wake of the car-crash fail that was the Backing Fracking “rally” next to Blackpool Football Club we thought that maybe this hilarious #socialmedaifail video Should be added to this one As far as we can tell the only big thing that started on Friday was the lorry carrying...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 19, 2015 · Last modified November 22, 2015
Sometimes keeping up with the fracking debate can be dry and tedious. At other times though we are treated to entertainment which makes it all worth while. Today at Blackpool Football Club the bitterness which seem to surround the place whilst the Oyston sagas rumble on gave way to pantomime...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 18, 2015 · Last modified November 19, 2015
Over the last two days we have been looking at the links between the so-called North West Energy Task Force and Westbourne Communications. We started to look at this when one of the NWETF panellists, Lee Petts, told us that “panelists aren’t involved in the day-to-day mechanics” of running the...
The North West Energy Task Force has been in the news over the last two days as allegations surfaced around suggestions that the list of supporters of fracking sent as signatories to a letter to LCC in January actually contained people who may not have consented to be on the...
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by Refracktion · Published November 17, 2015 · Last modified May 3, 2016
STOP PRESS: And it’s back – but minus three “supporters” who are presumably not supporters and with one added. The current version is therefore rather misleading as it now suggests that the list provided to LCC did not have these three names on it when rather clearly it did and...
Tonight we were astounded to read this Press Release from Frack Free Lancashire in which it is alleged that the North West Energy Task Force has added a significant percentage of its “supporters” to a letter to Lancashire County Council without them even being aware of it, and in a...
DECC released the results of Wave 15 of their opinion tracker. Since Wave 8 (December 2013) they have been tracking public support or opposition to fracking. Over those two years the situation has shifted radically as can be see from this graph: Over these two year we have seen support...
“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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