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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...
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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...
Francis Egan, the CEO of Cuadrilla, does love to bang on about the need for a “fact based” conversation. He likes to pretend that anyone who is concerned about fracking is a scare-mongering fool who is on a mission to freeze the nation’s grannies to death. We are not sure...
Anna's Road / Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 22, 2013 · Last modified January 23, 2013
It is heartening to see the support offered to Cuadrilla’s planning application 05/12/0729 by The Windmill Youth Group. With over 80 letters of objection received so far we were impressed that a youth group stood out against the rising tide of objection with a heartfelt paean to the employment “benefits”...
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by Refracktion · Published January 20, 2013
In an article in today’s Manchester Evening News MP Graham Stringer is quoted as saying The government, Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency have spent two years looking at the safety implications and the pollution implications of fracking and came to the conclusion that with the right regulation, which...
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by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 20, 2013
On Monday 1th January, Professor Mike Stephenson gave a lecture on Shale Gas: Fracking, Groundwater and Earthquakes at Lancaster University. One of Refracktion’s supporters was able to get a ticket and this is their report on the lecture. The talk was organised by the Lancaster University Environment Centre and Royal...
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by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2013
A report in the Blackpool Gazette tells how Wyre MP, Ben Wallace has spoken to Chancellor George Osborne, who is currently considering rewriting the tax regime for mineral extraction, to lobby that a percentage of any profits should be hived off for local use. http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/business-news/local-business/mp-calls-for-local-fracking-tax-1-5321645 This suggests that maybe there...
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by Refracktion · Published January 16, 2013 · Last modified June 13, 2013
The job of Health, Safety and Environment Director is an important one. We haven’t see Cuadrilla’s job description for this post , but here is how the UK’s official graduate careers website defines the responsibility of a Health and Safety Adviser (Presumably the responsibilities of a Director are commensurately greater)...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 12, 2013
The Financial Times reported yesterday that Cuadrilla Resources, the only company drilling for shale gas in the UK, is in talks to sell a stake to a big energy group, underscoring the growing investor interest in the UK’s shale gas reserves. … Another person familiar with the matter said one...
“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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