Earthquakes / Environment / Regulation / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published September 21, 2016
One of the key questions that needs to be answered if fracking were to be given the go ahead relates to the water treatment facilities in the UK capable of processing waste water from shale gas extraction. A question was put to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and...
Campaigning / Dangers / Industry Tactics / Media / Meetings / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 19, 2016 · Last modified September 20, 2016
In our last post we raised the issue of the courage and dignity that was manifestly lacking in the decision made by Lorraine Allanson and Ken Wilkinson to renege on a promise to take part in a debate on fracking in Harrogate. There is no doubt about the reason they...
Environment / Health Risks / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published September 1, 2016
Today’s sermon from the Church of St Michael Insanum will be based on a text from Galatians 6:7 “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” On Wednesday this week, Dr Ania Szolucha of the University of Bergen launched her peer-reviewed research paper on “The Social Futures of...
House Prices / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preese Hall / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 11, 2016 · Last modified September 8, 2016
Hot on the heels of Theresa May’s attempt to ignite the flare stack of public enthusiasm for fracking by offering householders bribes to accept it, comes an article from Mortgage Insider which fractures one of the main seams of her argument, releasing the very gas of truth into the air....
Dangers / House Prices / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2016
So yesterday the National Press all reported on a new consultation on fracking, launched personally, it would appear, by Theresa May. Except we haven’t yet (at the time of writing) been allowed to see its contents. Nevertheless the papers were hyperventilating about the news that individuals rather than councils would...
Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published June 14, 2016
Over the last few weeks a number of commentators have become increasingly concerned that the report from the Committee on Climate Change to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, produced under the direction of the 2015 Infrastructure Act, has not been made public. This report deals with...
So – whilst one part of the government is intent on pushing fracking onto an unwilling population on the Fylde, another part – this time the NHS – is trying to turn Westby (home of the proposed Preston New Road fracking site) into a “healthy new town”. The new housing...
We all know how the industry likes to claim that it will bring jobs to the local areas where it operates. We see precious little evidence to support this, so we were delighted to read that Public Health England are advertising in the BMJ for a “Consultant in Health Protection”...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion / Uncategorized / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2016 · Last modified January 18, 2016
We were struck recently by a page on the IGas PLC website which makes 2 highly misleading and exaggerated claims in the space of a couple of paragraphs. It is interesting that the shale gas companies do not seem to observe the same standard of honesty to which they seem...
Dangers / Environment / Health Risks / Information Level - Medium / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published December 22, 2015
Today’s news is the discovery, by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, that high levels of a potentially toxic chemical have been discovered in rock samples taken from an area of the UK targeted for shale gas extraction. The chemical in question is Selenium, and the area concerned is 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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