“BPC (Balcombe Parish Council) criticised Cuadrilla for using a Market Research Company that had conducted a survey in the village and had been disingenuous with parishioners about who had commissioned them and the purpose of the survey. Cuadrilla said if this happened this was against the instructions given to surveyors...
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by Refracktion · Published May 8, 2013
What, you may ask has what happens in Canada got to do with fracking on the Fylde? Well the EU is considering a draft Canada-EU Trade Agreement treaty which would “establish a fair and equitable treatment” obligation that outlaws any “breach of legitimate expectations of investors”. In practice this means...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013 · Last modified May 2, 2013
It’s fairly obvious that the proposed offer of community bribes wouldn’t be necessary if what was being proposed with fracking wasn’t a bad thing for the area. However, we think that the government may have miscalculated very badly in making it clear that they think they can buy off any...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013
This week the press seem to have decided that fracking is all about “community benefits”. Scratch just a little at this nasty little scab and you will see that it covers the festering reality that fracking is going to be so unacceptable that they have to bribe us – and...
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by Refracktion · Published April 28, 2013
Friday saw the Parliamentary Committee on Energy and Climate Change release its report entitled The Impact of Shale Gas on Energy Markets – Energy and Climate Change Over at Fracking Digest they have done a great job at summarising the meat of the report for easier digestion. Having read the...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 26, 2013 · Last modified April 28, 2013
We thought the reaction from Cuadrilla was worthy of a post all on it’s own. Let’s take a look at how they reacted (and also how they didn’t) Here is what their CEO Francis Egan had to say, as reported in the Blackpool Gazette. We would love to be able...
It has been interesting to see how far the news of the ASA ruling, which effectively bans Cuadrilla from making certain claims about the safety of fracking, has travelled. The Guardian was the first paper to publish an article http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/24/caudrilla-censured-fracking-safety-claims Curiously this article suggested (incorrectly) that the ASA had suggested...
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by Refracktion · Published April 24, 2013 · Last modified April 27, 2013
Cuadrilla’s community newsletter banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. In July 2012 Cuadrilla and their PR agency, PPS Group, created a “community newsletter” which was posted to thousands of households in Lancashire. It contained claims about the safety of fracking which were evidently not sustainable, so local group Refracktion (www.refracktion.org)...
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...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 28, 2013
As many of you will know Cuadrilla make a big thing of their responsiveness to local community issues and their PR company, PPS Group, man a Community Helpline 0800 170 1115 (24hr message service outside office hours) We contacted them by email with the following query 10 days ago In...
“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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"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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