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...
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 - 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...
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by Refracktion · Published January 4, 2013
Dr Tony Ingraffea’s article sums up very clearly the issues surrounding fracking – it is a must read for anybody who needs an introduction to the subject. Dr Ingraffea is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of a Cornell University 2011 study that established the greenhouse gas footprint of fracking as...
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?
It has been an eventful year hasn’t it? (LOL) I don’t think many of us expected to be campaigning against fracking this time last year (or wanted to be doing so) – so much of what happened before just went under the radar. I want to thank those of you...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 23, 2012
It’s not every day that we find the Daily Mail’s coverage of the fracking debate amusing. We are rather more used to laughing at it than with it. Sometimes, as with their badly researched advice in the Money Mail article “Dare investors take a bet on fracking?”, where they suggest...
Dangers / Information Level - Basic / ORIS / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published December 9, 2012
What we do NOT need is another government body costing more tax payers’ money and making life easier for Mr Osborne’s friends like Lord Browne by “streamlining” and “simplifying” the already inadequate regulatory regime.
Environment / House Prices / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 4, 2012
With George Osborne’s widely trailed permission to continue fracking due tomorrow we thought you’d like to see what we have lying in store for us in the Fylde Francis Egan (CEO-Cuadrilla) stated in Dec 2012 that USA had drilled 60,000 wells in the three years that they have been doing...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 2, 2012
#Fracking company admits its investors may be losing patience Cuadrilla may not be prepared to wait much longer. “If we get a negative decision this week, we would have little alternative than to walk away,” Mr Egan said. We have proven that there is gas and that it will flow....
“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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