There will be a public meeting at Lytham Assembly Rooms on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 7:00 pm organised by Defend Lytham They have called it “Fracking – Asking the Questions” At this meeting there will be a series of short presentations on the background to fracking, the issues that...
Campaigning / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013 · Last modified May 2, 2013
It’s fairly obvious that the proposed offer of community bribes wouldn’t be necessary if what was being proposed with fracking wasn’t a bad thing for the area. However, we think that the government may have miscalculated very badly in making it clear that they think they can buy off any...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013
Yesterday we attended the event hosted by Frack Free Fylde at which prospective Lancashire County Councillors from Lytham were quizzed about fracking and their views on it by local people. Well we say their “views”, but what was depressing and revealing was the lack of interest that most of them...
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by Refracktion · Published April 26, 2013 · Last modified April 28, 2013
I was reading Tina Rothery’s blog and came across her notes for last night’s presentation in Lancaster. It struck a real chord, as somebody who has been labelled as an “activist” over the last few days because of my complaint to the ASA about Cuadrilla’s newsletter. I am not an...
It has been interesting to see how far the news of the ASA ruling, which effectively bans Cuadrilla from making certain claims about the safety of fracking, has travelled. The Guardian was the first paper to publish an article http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/24/caudrilla-censured-fracking-safety-claims Curiously this article suggested (incorrectly) that the ASA had suggested...
Jessica Ernst – Public Meeting Tomorrow night (Thursday 7th March) there is a meeting where we are going to have the chance to learn from the first hand experience of Jessica Ernst. Jessica has worked in the oil and gas industry for 30 years and has direct experience of the...
Anna's Road / Meetings / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 26, 2013 · Last modified January 27, 2013
Cuadrilla is about to submit a planning application for horizontal fracturing at Annas Road site, but they say “Before Cuadrilla submits the planning application to Lancashire County Council, the company would like to give residents living in the area around the site an opportunity to find out more about what...
“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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