Industry Tactics / Media / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published November 8, 2019 · Last modified April 1, 2022
AJ Lucas have their bowl out again and are asking their investors for more cash. Last time they did this was back in January 2018 and we reported on that at the time. The idea of the offer is pretty straightforward – you are offered a number of shares for...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 12, 2019
Yesterday UKOOG (The UK Onshore Operators’ Group) released a new report called “Updated shale gas production scenarios“. A scenario is literally “that which is pinned to the scenery” and it looks to us as though the scenery here is pretty shoddy. First of all let’s be clear about what the...
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Regulation / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published October 30, 2018
In the circumstances that Cuadrilla find themselves unable to proceed without continually triggering seismic red lights the only sensible course of action is a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the Fylde and indeed in the entire country. Go on! Tell me it came as a big surprise to...
Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road
by Refracktion · Published October 6, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
Well Friday wasn’t a good day for Mr Egan and he was looking rather tired as he gave several interviews to TV news channels. I was particularly interested though by the one he gave to Alex Thompson of Channel 4 News. Mr Egan was visibly rattled by being asked about...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 16, 2018 · Last modified September 19, 2018
A Northwest MP wrote to Claire Perry MP in her capacity as Minister for Clean Growth and Energy. In his letter he raised concerns about shale gas extraction on behalf of his constituents. Ms Perry responded with a letter containing the usual government platitudes. Here is how it concluded: The...
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises” – Mae West With that in mind lets take a look at the commitments made by Cuadrilla to the county of Lancashire back in December 2016. How are they doing after nearly two years on each of these? Let’s take...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
This presentation is well worth half an hour of your time. It is by Jeremy Leggett who has extensive industry and academic experience in the extractive industries. History of oil & gas production from shale in pictures & charts : why US shale will crash and UK will fail:
Further to our article on whether it was advisable for Brian Coope to be involved with the vile Reclaim The Road page / group, we had a bit of a spat with Jim O’Neil (arch profracker) on a local Facebook Group. Jim swore blind that the pottymouthed RTR group was...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published June 28, 2018 · Last modified June 29, 2018
We were shocked to read a tweet by @Lady_ClaireUK on Twitter today. “A supposedly-neutral member of the Independent Advisory Group for @LancsPolice, Brian Coope, is also a member of a #fracking astroturf group, lobbying for Cuadrilla. This group & its members have been reported for harassment & incitement to violence”...
We are quite used to sparring with the industry’s front groups. It is a rather obvious strategy for them to set up astroturf groups claiming to be organised by local residents who can then say and do things that the companies themselves might prefer not to be seen saying and...
“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."
Twitter 7:24 AM · Feb 28, 2022
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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