Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 26, 2016
Today’s Times front page carries an article about a draft ruling made by the ASA on 5 complaints made about a Friends of the Earth Leaflet by fracktastic tag team of The Reverend Roberts and the now discredited Ken Wilkinson. Interestingly according to ASA procedures, all draft rulings must remain...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 19, 2016 · Last modified October 4, 2016
It is interesting that the fracking industry and its supporters like to pretend that they want to engage with people and have a proper debate about the issues. Sadly it seems that that is very seldom the case. We know all about the recent Lorraine and Ken debate debacle, with...
Campaigning / Dangers / Industry Tactics / Media / Meetings / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 19, 2016 · Last modified September 20, 2016
In our last post we raised the issue of the courage and dignity that was manifestly lacking in the decision made by Lorraine Allanson and Ken Wilkinson to renege on a promise to take part in a debate on fracking in Harrogate. There is no doubt about the reason they...
Campaigning / Industry Tactics / Meetings / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 17, 2016 · Last modified October 10, 2016
Following on from our last post about the lack of morality and integrity displayed by Ken Wilkinson and his (so far) anonymous accomplice in trying to wreck Mike Hill’s career, we are genuinely surprised to be able to bring you two more examples of things the pro-frackers don’t appear to...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 15, 2016 · Last modified September 20, 2016
Yesterday we were delighted to learn that, after a thorough 18 month investigation, Mike Hill was totally exonerated by the The Institution of Engineering and Technology with regard to 57 allegations that had been levelled against him. There were in fact two separate complaints brought against Mr Hill. The first...
Environment / Health Risks / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published September 1, 2016
Today’s sermon from the Church of St Michael Insanum will be based on a text from Galatians 6:7 “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” On Wednesday this week, Dr Ania Szolucha of the University of Bergen launched her peer-reviewed research paper on “The Social Futures of...
House Prices / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preese Hall / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 11, 2016 · Last modified September 8, 2016
Hot on the heels of Theresa May’s attempt to ignite the flare stack of public enthusiasm for fracking by offering householders bribes to accept it, comes an article from Mortgage Insider which fractures one of the main seams of her argument, releasing the very gas of truth into the air....
What’s this I hear you ask? The Global Warming Policy Forum , a right-wing climate denier “forum”, (or “think tank”, “septic tank” or what you will) is urging the newly minted PM to rush headlong of the fracking cliff? Surely not? But yes, they are indeed! London, 8 August 2016...
This document can be downloaded from https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/shale-wealth-fund The first and most obvious comment to make is that yesterday’s media hysteria about individual households being promised tens of thousands of pounds each was clearly rubbish. The only refrences to this idea in the document are: 1.12 The government is also clear...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 28, 2016 · Last modified August 17, 2016
We learned this week that Lancashire for Shale, a new pro-shale group funded by local businesses and industry, held its launch reception yesterday evening (25th July 2016) for Lancashire firms at the White Tower restaurant in Blackpool to call on local and national decision-makers to get behind onshore natural gas...
“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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