Category: Information Level

Farmers Against Fracking?

Farmers Against Fracking?

The Farming UK web site carried a story today in which George Osborne’s pledge to support shale gas come what may was roundly condemned as short-termist and dangerous It quoted the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management (CIWEM) ‘s Executive Director Nick Reeves as saying: “The Chancellor’s dangling carrot...

Lights Out ????

Lights Out ????

The continued unusually cold weather conditions also prompted so-called “experts” to renew their scaremongering about Britain’s gas running out. We were given two weeks of continuing cold weather before rationing was implemented. Earlier in the week OFGEM had reported that the ‘Big Six’ energy companies will make a record profit...

Your Involuntary Investment in Shale Gas

Your Involuntary Investment in Shale Gas

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...

Fracking and the Budget

Fracking and the Budget

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...

Community excluded in fracking risk assessment sham

Community excluded in fracking risk assessment sham

Re-published from REAF – Ribble Estuary Against Fracking We are republishing REAF’s latest news item relating to Cuadrilla’s blatant disregard for community involvement despite DECC stating that engagement with the community is an essential part of any Environmental Risk Assessment (ESA). Please share this as the drilling companies and the...