Industry Tactics / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published November 8, 2015 · Last modified November 9, 2015
Glancing at IGas’s website we were struck by the interesting claim The quantity of water required to frack an onshore shale gas well is broadly the same amount used to irrigate the typical British golf course each month. There are over 7,500 golf courses across the UK. This is also...
Dangers / Environment / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 28, 2015 · Last modified October 29, 2015
Our local MP Mark Menzies (Con) has already told us that he will support fracking provided there are “robust regulations in place“, but until now he has pretty much sat on the fence. Today, in a surprising attack on those opposing fracking, he accuses opponents of fracking of “scaremongering” and...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Traffic
by Refracktion · Published October 28, 2015
After UKOOG’s embarrassing climb down over their estimates of truck movements on their web sites we asked them for further clarification as we reported here We sent this email to them Subject: Vehicle movements Date: 8 October 2015 14:35:06 BST To: info@ukoog.org.uk Dear Sir On your web site you have...
Earthquakes / Information Level - Advanced / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 21, 2015 · Last modified November 3, 2015
A new report shows that public attitudes to fracking are, at least to an extent, predictable based on certain factors like gender, age, political persuasion, and environmental values. Lead author Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh from Cardiff University and the Tyndall Centre says “This is the first UK experimental survey of public...
There was a very interesting report on the role of women in the anti-fracking protest movement on BBC “Inside Out” which made the point very clearly that the childish mis-characterisation of all anti-frackers as “professional” activists couldn’t be farther from the truth. You can see it here whilst it is...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 9, 2015
Well it almost passed unnoticed, but George Osborne’s speech in Manchester this week may have profound effects on UK energy policy, fracking and the future of renewables. It seems that DECC has not been running as an autonomous department since the May election, instead it has been under direct control...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Traffic
by Refracktion · Published October 8, 2015
We have blogged recently about UKOOG’s misleading statements about fracking related truck traffic, but we have now found still more examples of totally misleading information about truck traffic Take a look at Page 8 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh briefing paper here which tells us They must have jolly...
When is a “truck movement” one movement and when is it two movements? Well it’s one movement when you want to convince people fracking won’t have as much impact as it really will. Thus, in the Institute of Directors’ report “Getting Shale Gas Working” we see figures for truck movements...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Advanced / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 6, 2015 · Last modified August 3, 2016
UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG)is the trade body which, amongst other things, promotes fracking to the nation. On their “What it looks like” web page until very recently they made the following claim about truck movements per well pad: Now 300 truck movements a year is less than 1...
Maybe it is unreasonable to expect an MP, possibly promoted above their real ability to ministerial rank, to be a master of all of the nuances of their new brief. However, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect an Energy Minister to know whether UK energy demand is increasing or has...
“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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"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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