Cuadrilla yesterday upped the hype level yet again. Speaking at the Shale UK conference in London, winsome (but sometimes extremely grumpy) young Cuadrilla geologist Huw Clarke told the audience that PEDL 165 may contain 330 TCF of gas. That’s a 50% increase on previous estimates, and all that increase was...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published January 16, 2014
When we look at the many dimensions of the fracking argument one of the most important is the question of climate change. The recent The IPCC 5th Assessment Report ran to over 2,000 pages long but you can see the key points distilled into haiku format in this 2 1/2...
Environment / Information Level - Advanced / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published December 18, 2013 · Last modified November 1, 2014
[I should point out that when this post was written DECC had confirmed to me that the figures were UK wide. (I asked the question of them because press reports were very confused and the report itself was not 100% clear to me) It has since become apparent that these...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 26, 2013 · Last modified August 4, 2016
Today the BBC put out a programme on Radio 4 – Inside Science – which claimed to get inside the science of fracking. It was terrible. Sloppy journalism and bad science. The list of badly reported programmes on fracking is long and ignoble – Iain Stewart’s Horizon programme springs to...
Balcombe / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 9, 2013
This comment on Cuadrilla’s record can be found in the comments section of the Daily Telegraph article on Cuadrilla’s most recent breach Let’s be very clear about Cuadrilla’s record. In 2011 their fracking caused earthquakes because they had performed inadequate geological surveys. They deformed their well casing at PH1 well...
Balcombe / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 8, 2013
If you ever wonder if Mark Menzies much hyped “gold standard” of regulation is going to save you from Cuadrilla’s ineptitude here on the Fylde consider this sorry tale: PRESS COMMENT Sunday September 8th FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No FiBS (No Fracking in Balcombe Society) Cuadrilla admitted yesterday that they have...
[A guest post by Alan Tootill] The newly released preliminary results on health problems in just one Pennsylvania county allegedly due to fracking have just appeared. The verdict appears to indicate there may be more problems due to air pollution that water pollution. It’s worth quoting the central points –...
Environment / Health Risks / Political Issues / Property Damage
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
For a variety of reasons, the expectation of the number of shale gas wells needing to be drilled in the UK deserves a wider discussion than it has had so far. The suspicion is that the topic is one which the industry and the pro-fracking government want to avoid. Indeed...
I am obviously not referring to the comments on the Telegraph pages which seem to be the unique preserve of a certain kind of swivel-eyed, anti-EU, foaming at the mouth Farage-alike. I am referring here to the Guardian comments on a “Comment Is Free” article penned by an American politician...
Earthquakes / Information Level - Advanced / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published July 8, 2013
Are the fault lines in fracking starting to show? A very interesting comment by DavidKSmythe appeared on an Observer article about the fracking industry– this weekend. So interesting that we thought we should reproduce it for you here. We have edited out a comment on the ethical practices of the...
“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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