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by Refracktion · Published July 13, 2015
A recent article in the Solicitors’ Journal entitled “Fracking: What you need to consider” discusses issues which need to be considered by conveyancing solicitors in areas where fracking may take place. [The article can only be accessed in full by registered users but you can sign up for a free...
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by Refracktion · Published July 2, 2015 · Last modified July 8, 2015
The Report on The Shale Gas Rural Economy impacts was published in heavily redacted form, generating a storm of protest in March 2014. Over a year later, and coincidentally just after the LCC decisions on Cuadrilla’s two development site applications, on July 1st 2015, the full report was finally published....
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published July 1, 2015 · Last modified April 2, 2022
Hot on the heels of the LCC decision to refuse Cuadrilla’s planning applications for Roseacre Wood and Preston New Road we saw a Westminster Hall debate on fracking. In this debate Kevin Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton proposed a buffer zone of six miles between fracking sites and an...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Media
by Refracktion · Published June 13, 2015
Prospectors and protesters await crucial UK fracking decision So runs the headline in today’s Financial Times above an article which begins Britain’s leading shale gas explorer Cuadrilla has cited rural Pennsylvania in the US, home to America’s “fracking” revolution, as a model for Lancashire where it hopes within days to...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published June 9, 2015
This week the Preston New Road Action Group sent out a press release which highlighted the fact that Cuadrilla are, by their own admission, planning between 80-100 well pads on their licence area. The Press release was accompanied by a diagram showing a hypothetical layout of 100 wells outside the...
Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published June 4, 2015 · Last modified June 9, 2016
We do most of our posting on Facebook and Twitter these days , but this is deserves a proper post. The Reverend Michael Roberts is a rabid supporter of fracking and likes to pretend he is an expert in all of the science that surrounds fracking. He is particularly dismissive...
Information Level - Medium / Media / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 31, 2015 · Last modified January 5, 2016
Well the pro-frackers are treating us to a succession of “car-crash” interviews of late aren’t they? Last week it was The Rambling Reverend scaremongering about imminent blackouts if we don’t get fracking underway (ignoring the slight logical problem that an industry which wouldn’t in any circumstances be able to contribute...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published January 27, 2015 · Last modified January 28, 2015
So what happened yesterday? Well first of all we were treated to a report from the Commons Environmental Audit Committee. This hard-hitting report was hugely critical of fracking. It made it abundantly clear that fracking was incompatible with the UK’s obligations towards climate change mitigation. The full text of its...
Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published January 27, 2015
On Monday morning (26th January 2015) the Environmental Audit Committee published its report into the “Environmental Risks of Fracking” It came out with 19 hard hitting conclusions and recommendations which are reproduced in full below. Being published on the day that MPs debated the Infrastructure Bill the report was a...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 25, 2015 · Last modified February 9, 2015
All characters appearing in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living, dead, or awaiting judgement in heaven, is purely coincidental. ather Jack Fracket surveyed the wintry scene from a distance. He checked his Timex “Celestial TimeMaster” watch – it was 2:30 pm on January 16th 2020 and...
“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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