The government’s Growth and Infrastructure Bill 2012-13 had its first reading in the House of Lords on 18 December, 2012. Why should you care? Because if it is allowed through then your local council and county council will have no power at all to decide on issues like fracking. Instead...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 23, 2012
It’s not every day that we find the Daily Mail’s coverage of the fracking debate amusing. We are rather more used to laughing at it than with it. Sometimes, as with their badly researched advice in the Money Mail article “Dare investors take a bet on fracking?”, where they suggest...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published December 14, 2012 · Last modified December 19, 2012
One of the very interesting things to come out of yesterday was the information that Cuadrilla’s engineers did not tell their senior management about the earth tremors which occurred near Blackpool in April and May 2011. You can see Leon Jennings, Health, Safety & Environment Director at Cuadrilla Resources giving...
We commented earlier this week about the fact that Mr Menzies appeared inordinately pleased with his failure to secure an independent panel to oversee shale gas regulation. Of course we didn’t just comment here, we wrote to him as well. Yesterday he raised the issue again in parliament to Energy...
Political Issues / Regulation / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published December 12, 2012 · Last modified December 13, 2012
How very disappointing to read Mark Menzies MP’s comment in the Lytham St Annes Express about how satisfied he is about the creation of The Office for Unconventional Gas. One of those positives of course was the creation of the Office for Unconventional Gas – a direct response I feel...
by Refracktion · Published December 10, 2012 · Last modified December 11, 2012
Application number 05/12/0729 – Anna’s Road Westby Cuadrilla have applied for permission to extend their drilling as a result of their mistake at Anna’s Road. Comments and objections need to be received by 24th December. http://planningregister.lancashire.gov.uk/PlanAppDisp.aspx?recno=6193
There has been an outpouring of articles in the press over the last few days from the usual suspects on the Conservative Right. A veritable broadside of bullshit from the government. Lord Lawson posted a particularly fatuous example in the Daily Mail on Friday. If you want to see why...
Dangers / Information Level - Basic / ORIS / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published December 9, 2012
What we do NOT need is another government body costing more tax payers’ money and making life easier for Mr Osborne’s friends like Lord Browne by “streamlining” and “simplifying” the already inadequate regulatory regime.
Environment / House Prices / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 4, 2012
With George Osborne’s widely trailed permission to continue fracking due tomorrow we thought you’d like to see what we have lying in store for us in the Fylde Francis Egan (CEO-Cuadrilla) stated in Dec 2012 that USA had drilled 60,000 wells in the three years that they have been doing...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 2, 2012
#Fracking company admits its investors may be losing patience Cuadrilla may not be prepared to wait much longer. “If we get a negative decision this week, we would have little alternative than to walk away,” Mr Egan said. We have proven that there is gas and that it will flow....
“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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