Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published November 27, 2015 · Last modified December 1, 2015
Opponents of shale gas exploitation here in the Fylde are well used to watching our MP, Mr Mark Menzies, sitting on the fence and claiming credit for having done something when in fact he is just doing a very good impersonation of the dog in “His Master Voice”. Back in...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published November 27, 2015
The Secretary of State (Greg Clark) is to call in Cuadrilla’s two fracking appeals in Lancashire. The Planning Inspector will still produce a report but the decision will be made at Westminster. The reason given is that the drilling appeals (3134385 and 3134386) involve proposals for exploring and developing shale...
Employment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published August 31, 2015 · Last modified September 1, 2015
The pro-fracker’s latest PR stunt is to try to profit from the misfortune of a PR Marriott employee who has been made redundant by trying to lay the entire blame for this on Lancashire County Council (for having refused permission to Cuadrilla to sink exploration wells last July), and by...
Accidents / Dangers / Earthquakes / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Preese Hall
by Refracktion · Published August 27, 2015
B.C. Oil and Gas Commission reports that a 4.6-magnitude earthquake in northeastern British Columbia last week has been linked to the largest earthquake in the province that’s already been attributed to fracking – a 4.4-magnitude earthquake that was felt in Fort St. John and Fort Nelson in August 2014. This...
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by Refracktion · Published July 15, 2015
PRESTON NEW ROAD COMMUNITY GROUP PRESS INFORMATION 15th July 2015 Preston New Road Community Group Slams New Task Force Report Preston New Road Community Group has described the newly-published report by the Task Force on Shale Gas – Assessing the Impact of Shale Gas on the Local Environment and Health...
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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...
The Sunday Times today tells us “BRITAIN’S shale gas industry faces a day of reckoning tomorrow when planners decide whether to allow fracking in Lancashire. The verdict from the county council’s planning chief will have far-reaching consequences for shale gas, which has transformed America’s economy, but has been stalled in...
Anna's Road / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Media / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 23, 2015 · Last modified January 24, 2015
On Thursday 22nd January Lancashire County Council announced that it’s officers had recommended rejection of Cuadrilla’s 2 applications for development wells in Roseacre and Preston New Road. Local media went into something of a frenzy getting reactions from Cuadrilla and from the various anti-fracking groups. In the interests of balance...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published January 16, 2015
So we learned today that Cuadrilla have been granted their environmental permit which was need to allow them to extract shale gas at their proposed site at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton (For the exploratory well – not production). We knew back in November that the EA were minded to...
“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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