Industry Tactics
Gainsborough / Industry Tactics / Locations
by Refracktion · Published February 27, 2025 · Last modified February 28, 2025
Questionable fracking claims are not exactly new, but we did think they might have gone away or at least been given a quiet retirement. After all, it hardly seems like 5 minutes since climate campaigners were celebrating the appearance of decommissioning equipment at Cuadrilla’s site at Preston New Road. Then...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 8, 2022 · Last modified October 10, 2022
Ever since we learned that the moratorium on fracking might be lifted we’ve been wondering when we’d have the pleasure of hearing Lorraine Allanson and Ken Wilkinson performing their shameless double act again. Listening to Tom Swarbrick on LBC yesterday we finally got to hear them both again when they...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 3, 2022 · Last modified October 4, 2022
So Mr Rees-Mogg’s definition of local support might not be quite the same as that of most local people. After all compensation is not consent
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published September 29, 2022 · Last modified October 3, 2022
Net Zero Watch (a retread of The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) are not usually particularly transparent, particularly when it comes to their sources of funding as we can see here: Their motives though are though quite transparent when it comes to some of their “demands”. After all, we know...
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 21, 2022 · Last modified September 22, 2022
The TLS is needed, but it is not fit for purpose and needs to be tightened up not relaxed! We last addressed this issue back in February 2019 when the fracking industry was desperately lobbying government to allow them to carry on regardless of the induced seismic activity that everyone...
Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 11, 2022
In yesterday’s Sunday Express an open letter from a number of the usual suspects (Brexity types turned climate change mitigation avoiders) like Tim Martin and Lance Forman claims: The United Kingdom has enough natural gas to take back control of our energy policy at least until we have developed nuclear...
Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Advanced / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 7, 2022
(More industry fluff!) We were tremendously excited to read in the Igas Full Year Results released on 6th April that they believe that UK shale gas will not only solve the UK energy crisis but will also deliver massive export potential. They tell us that 5 pads with just 16...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Media / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 6, 2022 · Last modified April 7, 2022
The tactics of Net Zero Watch, the shadowy group of Brexity climate change denying MPs and lobbyists hit a new low today. The results of a new poll were released in the Sun on Wednesday 6th April. Strangely the paper didn’t mention who had commissioned it, but it soon became...
Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Media / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Seismicity
by Refracktion · Published April 6, 2022
Today we were treated to two interviews with Francis Egan. The first was on Radio 4’s Today Programme with Justin Webb and the second was a rather testy affair with Graham Liver on Radio Lancashire. It’s fair to say that he didn’t shine in either of them. In the Radio...
That seems to have been the general response to Cuadrilla’s parent company AJ Lucas’s attempts to winkle more cash from their beleaguered investors. The results are now in and we can see that they managed to raise a gross total of Au$28.6 million from the sale of about 440 million...
“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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