The news reported today that hydraulic fracturing probably was responsible for the South Korean magnitude 5.5 earthquake last November will have caused a headache or two in the boardrooms at Cuadrilla, Ineos and the other fracking companies. Their mood won’t have been improved by the fact that this comes hot...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 12, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
It seems that we protesters are in fact merely unknowing participants in Cuadrilla’s thought experiment. Like the eponymous cat we appear to exist in two different states simultaneously. Cuadrilla’s Technical Director Mark Lappin was reported at the most recent Community Liaison Group meeting as stating that protest action at Preston...
Energy Prices / Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 12, 2018
The behaviour of the Russian state has come under scrutiny recently with the recent events in Salisbury. Predictably these events have been used to try to bolster the shale gas/energy security myth. After all who wants to be reliant on an unpredictable or unprincipled regime for something as important as...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published February 11, 2018
It was all going so well for the frackers. Report after report told us that UK shale gas was going to provide security of supply, cheaper gas, and oodles upon oodles of jobs. Doubters were caricatured as unpatriotic, Putin funded, fools who could not see the fossil fuel El Dorado...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published January 19, 2018 · Last modified September 12, 2018
There has been a lot of chatter today about one of Cuadrilla’s parent companies fund raising on the Australian Stock Exchange. I thought it might be useful to try to summarise the main points. The fund raising is split into an “offer” to existing institutional and retail shareholders to invest...
Our friends over at Backing Fracking have been in PR overdrive again. This time they are trying to do some maths but they haven’t really thought it through. Desperate to show that fracking might create some jobs, but having very little to base it on, they have had to rely...
House Prices / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 6, 2017
Cuadrilla proudly announced today that local residents, when surveyed, had indicated that they wanted the “community benefit” promised by Cuadrilla to go to their own pockets and not to other local causes. Maybe it’s hard to blame them – if you lose 7% (government estimate from the 2014 Shale Gas...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 30, 2017
Cuadrilla recently submitted an application to vary their planning permission at Preston New Road. As part of this they submitted a Supporting Statement This supporting statement was approved by no less than the Chief Executive of Cuadrilla as can be seen here: In this supporting statement they made the...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published October 29, 2017 · Last modified January 15, 2018
We were struck by a graphic produced by the Frackers’ PR machine last week so we decided to do some analysis of the relative costs ourselves. The results are quite interesting. The moral of today’s story is “Don’t be taken in by simplistic and illogical memes.” Here in one graphic...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published September 11, 2017
In George Orwell’s 1984, the main protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth, or “Minitrue”, as an editor. He is responsible for historical revisionism; he rewrites records and alters photographs to conform to the state’s ever-changing version of history itself. In 2017 he might have got a job...
“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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