In the early hours of Monday 7th December, 2015, the Roseacre Awareness Group’s anti-fracking protest signage was removed by trespassing on and stealing people’s private property. To say that this demonstrates just how badly the supporters of fracking are losing the argument is an understatement Here is CCTV footage of...
Dangers / Environment / Health Risks / Information Level - Medium / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published December 22, 2015
Today’s news is the discovery, by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, that high levels of a potentially toxic chemical have been discovered in rock samples taken from an area of the UK targeted for shale gas extraction. The chemical in question is Selenium, and the area concerned is the...
Well Backing Fracking finally held their promised vigil – not in Preston as advertised, but hastily moved to Blackpool. They say because of the problems in Preston (which don’t seem to have phased the TUC). We think it’s more likely that they just panicked when they realised what an embarrassingly...
Today, 17 December 2015, there was a meeting of the Full Council of LCC We understand that the following motion was put to a vote Agenda Part C – Notices of Motion submitted under Procedural Standing Order 14. 2.1(a) “1. By County Councillor Steve Holgate: Lancashire County Council has spent...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 17, 2015 · Last modified December 19, 2015
480 years ago a scholar and theologian named William Tyndale was put to death, by being strangled and burned, for having committed the heresy of translating the bible into English. We have learned from The Bee that today in Preston a close namesake, Stephen Tindale – will address a vigil...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 16, 2015 · Last modified December 17, 2015
I think it must be 🙂 Well done The Blackpool Gazette! Perhaps not quite as funny but still quite apposite are the contextual ads on The Bee’s report, given that if Backing Fracking get their way many locals may find themselves in an involuntary vapour zone.
Today in Parliament MPs will vote on the secondary legislation via statutory instrument on fracking in protected areas. Radio 4 carried an article on the Today programme this morning on the vote and invited Professor Richard Davies of Durham University’s ReFine group to comment. Profesor Davies was dismissive of the...
It is a well worn tactic by the fracking industry to try to buy local support, and in doing so divide the community. “Look – we’ll pay for a sports hall. Great Mr Smith – you want it. Oh Mr Brown you don’t, so by opposing fracking you are denying...
CCS / Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 14, 2015
Professor Paul Younger, an academic who famously supported fracking and UCG, is now reported to have recanted. The Ferret investigative journalism web site now reports him as saying that the case for shale has has been “fatally undermined” by the government’s U-Turn on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) The Ferret...
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...
“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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