If you ever waver in questioning what you are being told by the government about fracking and start to think that they are really being straight with you, just listen again to Lord Lawson on Radio 4’s “Any Questions” as he tries to explain away the dangers of fracking. https://www.refracktion.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lawson.mp3...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
In order to justify the dash for gas, the Government is relying on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to allow them to claim that shale gas will not breach existing commitments to climate change gas emission reductions. The problem is that for all their waffle, it just isn’t happening As...
We feel we may have given the impression that Francis Egan was trying to mislead listeners in his radio interview with Radio Lancashire this morning. However, it has been pointed out to us that we may have been traducing a philanthropic benefactor. Listening again to the interview we can confirm...
When it’s in a press release! Last Summer Cuadrilla made the claim in their “Community Newsletter” that Cuadrilla uses proven, safe technologies to explore for and recover natural gas Refracktion complained to the ASA about this statement and they duly adjudicated that On this point, the claim “Cuadrilla uses proven,...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published May 8, 2013
What, you may ask has what happens in Canada got to do with fracking on the Fylde? Well the EU is considering a draft Canada-EU Trade Agreement treaty which would “establish a fair and equitable treatment” obligation that outlaws any “breach of legitimate expectations of investors”. In practice this means...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013 · Last modified May 2, 2013
It’s fairly obvious that the proposed offer of community bribes wouldn’t be necessary if what was being proposed with fracking wasn’t a bad thing for the area. However, we think that the government may have miscalculated very badly in making it clear that they think they can buy off any...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013
Yesterday we attended the event hosted by Frack Free Fylde at which prospective Lancashire County Councillors from Lytham were quizzed about fracking and their views on it by local people. Well we say their “views”, but what was depressing and revealing was the lack of interest that most of them...
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by Refracktion · Published May 1, 2013
This week the press seem to have decided that fracking is all about “community benefits”. Scratch just a little at this nasty little scab and you will see that it covers the festering reality that fracking is going to be so unacceptable that they have to bribe us – and...
Campaigning / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 26, 2013 · Last modified April 28, 2013
I was reading Tina Rothery’s blog and came across her notes for last night’s presentation in Lancaster. It struck a real chord, as somebody who has been labelled as an “activist” over the last few days because of my complaint to the ASA about Cuadrilla’s newsletter. I am not an...
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by Refracktion · Published April 26, 2013 · Last modified April 28, 2013
We thought the reaction from Cuadrilla was worthy of a post all on it’s own. Let’s take a look at how they reacted (and also how they didn’t) Here is what their CEO Francis Egan had to say, as reported in the Blackpool Gazette. We would love to be able...
“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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