Anna's Road / Dangers / Environment / Health Risks / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Regulation / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published May 13, 2013
Two months ago we posed the question of why Cuadrilla were claiming to be voluntarily delaying their drilling at Anna’s Road Now, they had been waiting rather impatiently for nearly 2 years for the unofficial ban on fracking to be lifted. They messed up their drilling at Anna’s road and...
Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published April 14, 2013
Last week many column inches were devoted to a new report from Prof. Richard Davies at the University of Durham. The catchily titled Induced Seismicity and Hydraulic Fracturing for the Recovery of Hydrocarbons was picked up the press worldwide in what seems to have become the biggest non-story of the...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published March 28, 2013
We were delighted to learn that Energy Minister John Hayes has finally been moved to a position where he can do a bit less damage. Hayes has been an outspoken critic of renewables and has supported shale gas in the past using some decidedly dodgy tactics for a government minister....
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
The Farming UK web site carried a story today in which George Osborne’s pledge to support shale gas come what may was roundly condemned as short-termist and dangerous It quoted the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management (CIWEM) ‘s Executive Director Nick Reeves as saying: “The Chancellor’s dangling carrot...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
The mission statement of OUGO (Office of Unconventional Gas) was published and confirmed the simple fact that the UK government is absolutely determined to push ahead with shale gas and other unconventional gas and oil development at any cost. The brief included: “Making the most of our natural resources, Enabling...
Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
Green MP Caroline Lucas pointed out the potential impact of Ed Davey’s announcement on energy prices, reminding him that the only two nuclear power stations under construction in Europe currently were billions of pounds and years over budget. The only benefit would be to French taxpayers, at the expense of...
Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
The big UK fracking story of the week was on 20th March, the budget speech by George Osborne. After exempting the pottery industry amongst others from the Climate Change Levy, and announcing more subsidies for the declining North Sea industry he said: “But I also want Britain to tap into...
Anna's Road / Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 1, 2013
In this situation engaging with the regulatory regime and trying to ensure that we are properly protected is not compromising ideals, it is being realistic and responsible. Failing to do so would be irresponsible and self-indulgent.
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Radioactivity
by Refracktion · Published February 14, 2013
Professor Mike Stephenson publicly ridicules anybody who suggests that government agencies might be looking longingly at spent shale gas wells on the Fylde as potential nuclear waste repositories. I am not a scientist like him, but then I am not reliant on energy industry and government funding like he is...
Accidents / Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Uncategorized / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published February 14, 2013
Cuadrilla’s Community Newsletter Summer 2012 quotes the presumably ironically titled “Fact Based Regulation for Environment Protection in Shale Gas Development, University of Texas 2012” in a big blue panel on page 4 There is no evidence of aquifer contamination from hydraulic fracturing Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s CEO, refuting the suggestion that...
“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."
Twitter 7:24 AM · Feb 28, 2022
Take the advice of Greg Clark, ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
"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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