We have mentioned before that Hill and Knowlton, a PR company who worked to convince people that there was no proven link between smoking and lung cancer were hired by America’s Natural Gas Alliance. Now we read that Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Group have played a major part in creating...
Anna's Road / Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 1, 2013
In this situation engaging with the regulatory regime and trying to ensure that we are properly protected is not compromising ideals, it is being realistic and responsible. Failing to do so would be irresponsible and self-indulgent.
Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 24, 2013 · Last modified January 25, 2013
This morning on Radio 4 I woke up to hear a bizarre item in which Simon Jack gave 3 minutes of air time to an energy company boss who spouted PR unchallenged for the entire piece. He wasn’t seriously questioned and no opposing view was provided for balance 0716 Business...
Accidents / Air Polllution / Chemicals / Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Health Risks / House Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Radioactivity / Regulation / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 20, 2013
On Monday 1th January, Professor Mike Stephenson gave a lecture on Shale Gas: Fracking, Groundwater and Earthquakes at Lancaster University. One of Refracktion’s supporters was able to get a ticket and this is their report on the lecture. The talk was organised by the Lancaster University Environment Centre and Royal...
Accidents / Air Polllution / Chemicals / Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Health Risks / Information Level - Medium / Radioactivity / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published January 9, 2013
From the RAFF Facebook Page – We thought this important enough to make it permanent here! The shale gas industry here in the UK has not been open about the threats to the health of people living nearby sites where ‘fracking’ takes place. Of course earthquakes, water and land contamination,...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published December 29, 2012
We are all for constructive public discourse, but it needs to be based on the truth! If one party keeps misleading the other the dialogue just can’t happen can it?
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 2, 2012
This government came into power on a wave of promises. Who can forget the sight of David Cameron in the Arctic, as a guest of WWF, hugging a husky and promising us “The greenest government ever”. A sight that some of us might now wish to linger on for quite...
Energy Prices / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published November 29, 2012
You could almost be forgiven for thinking that there IS no policy to impose shale gas fracking on the Fylde Coast!
Following a vote in the European Parliament this week Euro MPs did not vote to support a moratorium on shale gas development. Given the “quality of the debate” we have to say that this was perhaps not particularly surprising. In this clip you can hear two highly paid people (who...
Accidents / Air Polllution / Anna's Road / Chemicals / Dangers / Environment / Health Risks / Information Level - Medium / ORIS / Political Issues / Regulation / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published November 24, 2012
On 16th November Cuadrilla announced that they had made a decision to re-spud their well on Anna’s Road, Westby. [DECC defines a well to be a borehole drilled into the earth from a single surface or subsurface location to a single subsurface location. If the surface location changes but target...
“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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