Mark Menzies asks some pertinent questions
Today Mark Menzies was interviewed by Radio Lancashire and asked some very pertinent questions about local consent for fracking and how it might be measured. It’s worth a listen.
Category: Environment
Environmental Dangers
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...
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...
Frankie Say….
Today we were treated to two interviews with Francis Egan. The first was on Radio 4’s Today Programme with Justin Webb and the second was a rather testy affair with Graham Liver on Radio Lancashire. It’s fair to say that he didn’t shine in either of them. In the Radio...
Would he lie to you?
A couple of weeks ago we commented on Mr Egan’s claim that reports of damage were in the “low two figures”. It was a strange claim given that we have heard from a variety of sources that there were over 100. So what are we to make of the publication...
Another view on the moratorium
Here on Refracktion we are always happy to explore points of view. Local author Alan Tootill has been a commentator on fracking for many years and his in depth analysis has been immensely helpful to many of us over the years. Here he offers his thoughts on recent events. Reaction...
The writing is on the wall
As the dust starts to settle on the announcement of the government’s decision to implement a moratorium on new fracking development we take a look at what it means and how it came about. First of all let’s be clear about one thing. Fracking in England has not been banned....
The cracks in Cuadrilla’s façade
The papers today are running a story about Cuadrilla’s good will payments made to home owners who reported damage after the 2.9 Ml quake of Monday August 26th 2019. This article in the Times is typical so we shall comment on a few of the points it raises. A fracking...
The fat lady is on stage
.. and she is already singing. Today Cuadrilla announced that they are demobilising the fracking equipment at their site at Preston New Road as they will not be able to restart fracking before their existing planning permission runs out at the end of November 2019. Before they can frack again...
Shaken AND Stirred
It is no news to anybody now that Cuadrilla appear to have lost control of the seismic activity at their PNR 2 well at Preston New Road. We have now seen 128 seismic events registered by the BGS. Of these 9 have been amber level events and 9 have been...
