A guest post by local businesswoman, Kate Styles, reproduced from her blog with her kind permission So what is a “professional protester”? I see this term a lot, especially in the letters pages when the publication has covered an anti fracking demonstration. Very regularly, we see phrases such as “professional...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published January 27, 2017 · Last modified February 5, 2017
This week Ineos paid to have an 8 page supplement inserted into 10 Johnstone Press titles in and around the midlands. An electronic version of the supplement (which does differ from the print version can be found here) Having analysed the statements made, we have identified no less than 40...
Local engineer Mike Hill has now taken a good look at the recent paper on fracking from the Church of England that the shale gas PR machine rather desperately claimed endorsed fracking. He seems rather unimpressed – you can read his observations here http://media.wix.com/ugd/b0aabf_5902a55b06fd4338a56db38dd8687240.pdf Amusingly the Blackpool Gazette has now...
It’s time for the Cuadrilla “Spot The Difference” competition. Readers who follow this blog may recall the trouble we had getting any answers from Cuadrilla’s “Community Information Line” (which is in fact run by their PR company Lexington Communications) We were trying to get the answer to three fairly simple...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 24, 2017 · Last modified May 18, 2018
Regular readers may be aware that local engineer Mike Hill was subjected to a protracted smear campaign by pro-fracking activists. We believe that in making a host of unfounded, unsustainable but ultimately very damaging insinuations against an honest man the pro-fracking activists concerned not only crossed a line into totally...
Some of Cuadrilla’s lies (like the one about the police asking them to move the barriers to the centre of the road at Preston New Road, or the one about fracking pads being the size of a single rugby pitch) seem to slide their way seamlessly into the local press...
Axed LSE Editor Receives Invitation to Attend PNR Protest Frack Free Lancashire have recently commented on emails sent out by Cuadrilla’s in house spin doctor, axed Johnstone press editor Steve Singleton. (well we say “In House” , but we’re not sure how somebody employed by PR company PPS Solutions’ office...
It was interesting to see the breakdown of costs provided by Cuadrilla in their claim against Tina Rothery, and how they tried their hardest to limit the amounts spent and used the opportunity to support business in Lancashire. Along with the other costs making up the amazing £62,871 they tried...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 19, 2017
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8-32 So what ARE we to make of @backingfracking’s lie that the Church of England is Backing Fracking? First of all they make the claim on Facebook that the “anti-fracking narrative (has been) sacrificed on the...
Fracking is a process that is struggling to gain a foothold in the UK. As the companies involved scrabble to get permission to drill across vast swathes of the countryside, they are also fighting a battle to win the hearts and minds of the population, because they know that without...
“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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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"
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