Dangers / Earthquakes / Preston New Road
by Refracktion · Published October 19, 2018 · Last modified October 20, 2018
STOP PRESS – a further quake of 0.3ml (5 times stronger than the strongest one yesterday – a 0.2 ml ) has occurred this afternoon The regulations require fracking to proceed with caution when induced seismicity reaches 0.0-0.5 magnitude (amber) and stop immediately (red) if it reaches 0.5. We are...
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road
by Refracktion · Published October 6, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
Well Friday wasn’t a good day for Mr Egan and he was looking rather tired as he gave several interviews to TV news channels. I was particularly interested though by the one he gave to Alex Thompson of Channel 4 News. Mr Egan was visibly rattled by being asked about...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
This presentation is well worth half an hour of your time. It is by Jeremy Leggett who has extensive industry and academic experience in the extractive industries. History of oil & gas production from shale in pictures & charts : why US shale will crash and UK will fail:
The news reported today that hydraulic fracturing probably was responsible for the South Korean magnitude 5.5 earthquake last November will have caused a headache or two in the boardrooms at Cuadrilla, Ineos and the other fracking companies. Their mood won’t have been improved by the fact that this comes hot...
Fault lines are in the news again with the two recent significant quakes in the UK – Wales 2 weeks ago and Cumbria just this morning. How careful do they need to be about fracking near a fault line? In 2012 the Refine Group published a study which suggested that...
Dangers / Earthquakes / Information Level - Medium / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published February 28, 2018
We woke up this morning to earn that Mosser in Cumbria (NW of Buttermere) had been the epicentre of the UK’s latest significant earthquake (Mag 3.2) , following the one in Wales 2 weeks ago (Mag 4.6). The location of this quake is about 60 miles from the centre of...
In an effort to clarify the issue of where the water we drink comes from I put in an EIR request to United Utilities. It took them some time to come up with a response but here is a summary. If you live in the Fylde then your water comes...
Campaigning / Environment / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 11, 2017
A week or so ago I met local music teacher Andy Severyn for a beer and out of the blue came an idea for a song about fracking. A couple of days later Andy and I (but mostly Andy) had put together some great replacement lyrics for Don McLean’s haunting...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published September 11, 2017
In George Orwell’s 1984, the main protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth, or “Minitrue”, as an editor. He is responsible for historical revisionism; he rewrites records and alters photographs to conform to the state’s ever-changing version of history itself. In 2017 he might have got a job...
Most of us are by now aware that there were two significant earth tremors in the Fylde in early 2011, which coincided with Cuadrilla’s fracking at Preese Hall. It seemed for a while that as reported by the Daily telegraph in 2011 that “Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes” and...
“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."
Parliament 22 September 2022
"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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