Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013 · Last modified April 1, 2013
Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s CEO spends a lot of time sounding exasperated that he can’t have a proper debate about shale gas with the people who are against it because, according to him, we are environmental extremists. He is wrong. We are just ordinary people who are trying to sift the...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
The continued unusually cold weather conditions also prompted so-called “experts” to renew their scaremongering about Britain’s gas running out. We were given two weeks of continuing cold weather before rationing was implemented. Earlier in the week OFGEM had reported that the ‘Big Six’ energy companies will make a record profit...
We keep hearing it – Cuadrilla repeat it at every turn because they know that it is one of their routes to gaining community acceptance. We, and many others have questioned the promised employment boom on the basis that whilst a few temporary local jobs would of course be created...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 24, 2013
One of the little discussed issues around the recent announcement that the government is going to throw tax breaks at an industry which insists it doesn’t actually want or need them (see https://www.refracktion.org/index.php/fracking-and-the-budget/) is that it turns us all into investors in this business, as it is now OUR money...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 23, 2013
As expected George Osborne used his budget speech on Wednesday to express government support for the fracking industry. He said: In the spending round, we will provide support for energy-intensive industries beyond 2015. For the North sea, we will this year sign contracts for future decommissioning relief, the expectation of...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 23, 2013
Re-published from REAF – Ribble Estuary Against Fracking We are republishing REAF’s latest news item relating to Cuadrilla’s blatant disregard for community involvement despite DECC stating that engagement with the community is an essential part of any Environmental Risk Assessment (ESA). Please share this as the drilling companies and the...
Cuadrilla have not been noted for their commitment to Environmental Impact Assessments. They have built fracking wells with pads that are marginally smaller than the size which would have required mandatory EIAs’ and, as we reported here, https://www.refracktion.org/index.php/cuadrillas-scoping-document-for-an-eia/ , they have applied, in their EIA scoping documents submitted to LCC,...
We have mentioned before that Hill and Knowlton, a PR company who worked to convince people that there was no proven link between smoking and lung cancer were hired by America’s Natural Gas Alliance. Now we read that Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Group have played a major part in creating...
Sometimes company names can be mildly amusing and appropriate – think “Grate Expectations” for a fireplace shop. Sometimes they can be unintentionally funny – like the now legendary “S.T.D. Contractors” service company in Pontiac near Detroit. Sometimes though people’s choices of company name can be unexpectedly revealing. Yes, we are...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 5, 2013
As Dr Brian Cox once sang “Things – can only get better”
“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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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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