Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 23, 2013
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...
Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published March 14, 2013
What are we to make of our newly parachuted-in MP? Here in Fylde we grew accustomed to being represented by an MP, Michael Jack, who clearly held the interests of his constituents close to his heart. More than that, his wife, Alison, campaigned tirelessy and effectively to defend the area...
Anna's Road / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 13, 2013
Reported in the LEP last night: http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/fracking-plans-put-on-hold-for-new-report-1-5491568 The company behind Lancashire’s controversial ‘fracking’ industry has put its exploration plans on hold until next year. Cuadrilla Resources has revealed it will not carry out hydraulic fracturing at the site at Anna’s Road, near Lytham, until 2014 as it puts together an...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 5, 2013
As Dr Brian Cox once sang “Things – can only get better”
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Radioactivity
by Refracktion · Published February 14, 2013
Professor Mike Stephenson publicly ridicules anybody who suggests that government agencies might be looking longingly at spent shale gas wells on the Fylde as potential nuclear waste repositories. I am not a scientist like him, but then I am not reliant on energy industry and government funding like he is...
Anna's Road / Meetings / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 26, 2013 · Last modified January 27, 2013
Cuadrilla is about to submit a planning application for horizontal fracturing at Annas Road site, but they say “Before Cuadrilla submits the planning application to Lancashire County Council, the company would like to give residents living in the area around the site an opportunity to find out more about what...
Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 24, 2013 · Last modified January 25, 2013
This morning on Radio 4 I woke up to hear a bizarre item in which Simon Jack gave 3 minutes of air time to an energy company boss who spouted PR unchallenged for the entire piece. He wasn’t seriously questioned and no opposing view was provided for balance 0716 Business...
BBQ Question time will be in Lancaster on Thursday 31st January If you would like to be in the audience you can apply here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17154440
Francis Egan, the CEO of Cuadrilla, does love to bang on about the need for a “fact based” conversation. He likes to pretend that anyone who is concerned about fracking is a scare-mongering fool who is on a mission to freeze the nation’s grannies to death. We are not sure...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 20, 2013
In an article in today’s Manchester Evening News MP Graham Stringer is quoted as saying The government, Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency have spent two years looking at the safety implications and the pollution implications of fracking and came to the conclusion that with the right regulation, which...
“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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"Those who are prepared to organise to be more effective and more efficient should be able to reap substantially the rewards of that boldness ...
Take power now. Don’t let yourself, any longer, be ruled by someone else"
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