Industry Tactics / Policing / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 28, 2017
At about 4:30 on Thursday morning a Cuadrilla convoy of about 20 trucks apparently contravened the planning regulations set by LCC, with the full knowledge and apparent collusion of Lancashire Police. Cuadrilla were in self-congratulatory mode, sending out a cocky press release, and when questioned about the timing of the...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2017 · Last modified August 15, 2017
Well Cuadrilla’s timings for Preston New Road are anyway. Today Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s boss, told Drill or Drop “We will exercise our democratic right to carry on with our lawful work at Preston New Road which is progressing to plan.” With Mr Egan it is hard to know whether even...
Policing / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2017
So, today’s front page of the Times carries an article in which “residents’ group” Backing Fracking criticise Arfon Jones, the police commissioner for North Wales, for allegedly using his position to influence a decision on pulling the Welsh Police out of the mutual aid agreement with Lancashire Constabulary. In case...
While protesting about fracking there are some dark and dramatic moments which makes it all the more surreal when it all degenerates into farce. I could hardly believe my eyes when I realised that Lancashire County Council, in its infinite wisdom has now positioned between 4 and 6 security guards...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 14, 2017 · Last modified July 15, 2017
Backing Fracking and the other industry astroturf groups are clearly struggling to engage the 50% or so of the population who are undecided in fracking, so of late they’ve been doing a bit of button pushing. In the Conservative Fylde this has mostly taken the form of demonising protesters as...
Employment / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Tourism
by Refracktion · Published June 22, 2017
Cuadrilla are trying to claim today that fracking will result in a tourism boom for Lancashire. They even shipped over a bombastic B&B battleaxe from Yorkshire to try to make their point for them. However, it won’t. How do we know? Why because their planning expert witness told us just...
Most of us are by now aware that there were two significant earth tremors in the Fylde in early 2011, which coincided with Cuadrilla’s fracking at Preese Hall. It seemed for a while that as reported by the Daily telegraph in 2011 that “Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes” and...
Back in April we noticed that Cuadrilla had failed to issue and update in 2017 Q1 as promised, and commented that we’d noticed an apparent reduction in the number of companies claimed to be registered on the supply chain portal. On 31st May Cuadrilla finally released an updated “quarterly” tracker...
Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published May 22, 2017 · Last modified May 23, 2017
So we now know what the Conservative Party has in mind for fracking if they get re-elected in June. Or at least we know what they would like us to believe they will do, as a manifesto promises from the Conservative Party haven’t always been reliable. Here is the passage...
Media / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published May 11, 2017
We received the following press release today and feel that it deserves to be read: PRESS RELEASE Local documentary photographer unfairly targeted by police after covering an anti-fracking demonstration for nine minutes. A photographer has been unfairly targeted by police after covering an anti-fracking protest in Greater Manchester. Oldham-based Peter...
“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."
Twitter 7:24 AM · Feb 28, 2022
Take the advice of Greg Clark, ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
"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"
We apologise, but due to the malign influence of Elon Musk we no longer use Twitter
More
"What you have to be able to do when you decide you want to hydraulic fracture is make sure there are no faults in the area. That's really very very important"
Professor Mike Stephenson - Director of Science and Technology - British Geological Survey
Roseacre Awareness Group
Refracktion
Defend Lytham
RAFF Group
Ribble Estuary Against Fracking
Fracking Digest – a summary of the week’s news
Frack Free Balcombe Residents Association
Frack Free Sussex
Frack Free York
Halsall Against Fracking
If you would like your group to be added please contact us
