Here is the letter, via the FT From Mr Tom Brown. Sir, Your support for UK shale gas (“Make haste slowly on UK shale gas”, editorial, August 6) based upon “the reduction in energy prices and the improvement in energy security” is unjustified on both grounds. Even if the extraction,...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 12, 2013 · Last modified August 13, 2013
By now we are used to the amount of spin which politicians and the industry apply to this issue. Sometimes when mistakes are made it’s easy enough to concede that there may have been a slip of the tongue. What are we to make of somebody who so consistently has...
We’ve been away on holiday but it’s hard to avoid the constant sound of feet hitting mouths even from a few hundred miles away. Some of our favourites: Lord Howell and his ill-judged Nimbyism exemplified by his “desolate” North East comments. Lord Howell’s attempts to extricate himself by claiming he...
It is a common tactic of PR campaigns to try to capitalise on people’s natural group behaviour by presenting the desired opinion as a majority. This media manipulation technique is called ‘appeal to consensus’ as most people instinctively want to be considered ‘normal’. One way of doing this is to...
We are in awe of the ability of government ministers to put their feet into their mouths with such consistent accuracy. Lord Howell’s gaffes this week are classics of the genre. Now, one of the accusations that gets levelled at those opposed to fracking in the Fylde from time to...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2013 · Last modified October 28, 2016
Speaking at the Shale Gas World UK 2013 conference, Andrew Dawson, Councillor for Frodsham – Cheshire West and Chester Council and serving on Frodsham Town Council, recommended to the assembled fracking companies that they should use schoolchildren to get their message across: “Can I just push the schools to you...
We learned today that Dan Byles has appointed Lee Petts, managing director at waste and environmental management specialists Remsol and occasional Cuadrilla advocate to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Gas and Oil (APPGUGO) http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/remsol-appointed-to-government-group-1-5881841 Now Mr Petts is a likeable enough chap for a pro-fracker and we can...
.. or not perhaps. We are very used to hearing that councillors can’t attend open meetings for fear of being seen to be prejudiced and barred from voting on any issues. Normally we see this as being a technical and unnecessary restriction which stops elected representatives from getting properly informed...
If you ever waver in questioning what you are being told by the government about fracking and start to think that they are really being straight with you, just listen again to Lord Lawson on Radio 4’s “Any Questions” as he tries to explain away the dangers of fracking. https://www.refracktion.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lawson.mp3...
The government today announced it’s subsidy package for fracking companies. The result will be huge tax cuts – from 62% to 30%, but even rabid pro-frackers like Peter Lilley admit that they are not needed! Lilley said in parliament as recently as yesterday that I was the only member of...
“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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