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Gainsborough / Industry Tactics / Locations

Heyco! Heyco! It’s off to work they go!

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...

Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion

Desperate Times …

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...

Lorraine Allanson

Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion

The Lozza and Ken tag team is back!

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...

Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion / Uncategorized

Net Zero Watch are on shaky ground

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

Liz Truss Struggles To Explain Local Consent

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

Why the seismic traffic light system must not be relaxed for UK fracking

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

More Numberwang

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...