Environment / Health Risks / Political Issues / Property Damage
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
For a variety of reasons, the expectation of the number of shale gas wells needing to be drilled in the UK deserves a wider discussion than it has had so far. The suspicion is that the topic is one which the industry and the pro-fracking government want to avoid. Indeed...
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
In order to justify the dash for gas, the Government is relying on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to allow them to claim that shale gas will not breach existing commitments to climate change gas emission reductions. The problem is that for all their waffle, it just isn’t happening As...
This from Alan Tootill – But before we quote his comments, it seems that the government doesn’t really understand EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery rates) or is hopelessly optimistic about them. Either way that’s rather worrying! The maths is rather simple – to calculate the number of wells required to extract...
Local MP Mark Menzies spoke in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday. He suggested that the interpretation of “well site” for the £100k payment during the exploration/appraisal stage in the OFFUGO charter should be per well and not per well site. It is therefore important for the...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 17, 2013 · Last modified September 11, 2013
We are very unimpressed with the claims made in the recent IoD report on shale gas that there might be 74,000 jobs created by the government’s dash for gas. We recently tried to raise this with Dan Byles MP who does keep repeating the claim On July 12th we wrote...
Parliament Today on Radio 4 last Friday had a segment on shale gas. As always it is interesting to see how our elected representatives disport themselves whilst “looking after our interests”. Play -> Parliament Today R4 Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander does an impression of the unpopular schoolboy trying to ingratiate...
Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published July 13, 2013 · Last modified July 15, 2013
We have been made aware of the existence on an example of a rare and endangered species, which was spotted just this week in London and which may get in the way of fracking in the UK. Coeruleus illegitimus senex (Common name Peter Lilley) was spotted in the House of...
This letter was sent today to our local MP in the Fylde, Mark Menzies We will let you know how he replies: Dear Mark Would you be kind enough to respond formally to this email? A lot has been made of the community benefits package announced for fracking, but to...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 9, 2013 · Last modified July 10, 2013
Today’s Sun carries an article written by Nigel Lawson, ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, and chief cheerleader for fracking. It is a masterpiece of bad logic and polemic, spiced with arrogance and stupidity. The sad thing is that people will read this rubbish uncritically and believe at least some of...
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2013-07-05a.162967.h&s=speaker%3A24804#g162967.q0 July 5th 2013 Mark Menzies (Fylde, Conservative) To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to ensure that any community benefit revenue that is derived from shale gas is apportioned to people living in the immediate vicinity of well sites. Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks, Conservative) I...
“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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