Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 24, 2013
One of the little discussed issues around the recent announcement that the government is going to throw tax breaks at an industry which insists it doesn’t actually want or need them (see https://www.refracktion.org/index.php/fracking-and-the-budget/) is that it turns us all into investors in this business, as it is now OUR money...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 23, 2013
As expected George Osborne used his budget speech on Wednesday to express government support for the fracking industry. He said: In the spending round, we will provide support for energy-intensive industries beyond 2015. For the North sea, we will this year sign contracts for future decommissioning relief, the expectation of...
Anna's Road / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 13, 2013
Reported in the LEP last night: http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/fracking-plans-put-on-hold-for-new-report-1-5491568 The company behind Lancashire’s controversial ‘fracking’ industry has put its exploration plans on hold until next year. Cuadrilla Resources has revealed it will not carry out hydraulic fracturing at the site at Anna’s Road, near Lytham, until 2014 as it puts together an...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 5, 2013
As Dr Brian Cox once sang “Things – can only get better”
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Radioactivity
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...
Accidents / Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Uncategorized / Water Pollution
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...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
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...
Accidents / Air Polllution / Chemicals / Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Health Risks / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Radioactivity / Regulation / Water Pollution
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...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 6, 2013
We think we should add our praise to that lavished on Cuadrilla by Fylde Mayor Coun Heather Speak. They are quite amazing really! As we can see in the article from the Lytham St Annes Express shown below, Cuadrilla not only damaged the small community area in Treales – they...
“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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"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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