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...
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...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 9, 2015
As we read further down IGas’s page on Water Protection and Usage we were struck by yet another apparent misrepresentation of the truth. yes, they actually state that: There have also been more than one million wells drilled around the world, and in no case has there been a single...
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...
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...
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...
Environment / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 25, 2015 · Last modified September 26, 2015
CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration) has been hailed as a sort of silver bullet by those who want us to accept UK shale gas as a bridge fuel to a future based on renewable fuels. Without it it is clear that if we are to meet our climate change obligations...
Accidents / Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Preese Hall
by Refracktion · Published August 27, 2015
B.C. Oil and Gas Commission reports that a 4.6-magnitude earthquake in northeastern British Columbia last week has been linked to the largest earthquake in the province that’s already been attributed to fracking – a 4.4-magnitude earthquake that was felt in Fort St. John and Fort Nelson in August 2014. This...
Environment / Information Level - Advanced / Political Issues / Property Damage / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 24, 2015 · Last modified September 21, 2015
4000 wells would require 100 well pads even if they could manage 40 wells per pad 4000 wells would only generate about 12.5 TCF of gas using IoD estimates for EURs It would take nearly a decade to produce 1 year’s worth of UK gas demand It would require nearly...
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by Refracktion · Published July 15, 2015
PRESTON NEW ROAD COMMUNITY GROUP PRESS INFORMATION 15th July 2015 Preston New Road Community Group Slams New Task Force Report Preston New Road Community Group has described the newly-published report by the Task Force on Shale Gas – Assessing the Impact of Shale Gas on the Local Environment and Health...
“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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