After Professor Mike Stephenson’s talk at Lancaster Radio Lancashire undertook a Vox Pop which seems to pretty much accord with our correspondent’s report. Those interviewed remained unconvinced by Professor Stephenson’s attempts to convince us that fracking is safe. This was broadcast on Graham Liver’s programme on Radio Lancashire the next...
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by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 20, 2013
On Monday 1th January, Professor Mike Stephenson gave a lecture on Shale Gas: Fracking, Groundwater and Earthquakes at Lancaster University. One of Refracktion’s supporters was able to get a ticket and this is their report on the lecture. The talk was organised by the Lancaster University Environment Centre and Royal...
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by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2013
A report in the Blackpool Gazette tells how Wyre MP, Ben Wallace has spoken to Chancellor George Osborne, who is currently considering rewriting the tax regime for mineral extraction, to lobby that a percentage of any profits should be hived off for local use. http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/business-news/local-business/mp-calls-for-local-fracking-tax-1-5321645 This suggests that maybe there...
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by Refracktion · Published January 16, 2013 · Last modified June 13, 2013
The job of Health, Safety and Environment Director is an important one. We haven’t see Cuadrilla’s job description for this post , but here is how the UK’s official graduate careers website defines the responsibility of a Health and Safety Adviser (Presumably the responsibilities of a Director are commensurately greater)...
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by Refracktion · Published January 12, 2013
The Financial Times reported yesterday that Cuadrilla Resources, the only company drilling for shale gas in the UK, is in talks to sell a stake to a big energy group, underscoring the growing investor interest in the UK’s shale gas reserves. … Another person familiar with the matter said one...
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by Refracktion · Published December 29, 2012
We are all for constructive public discourse, but it needs to be based on the truth! If one party keeps misleading the other the dialogue just can’t happen can it?
The government’s Growth and Infrastructure Bill 2012-13 had its first reading in the House of Lords on 18 December, 2012. Why should you care? Because if it is allowed through then your local council and county council will have no power at all to decide on issues like fracking. Instead...
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by Refracktion · Published December 23, 2012
It’s not every day that we find the Daily Mail’s coverage of the fracking debate amusing. We are rather more used to laughing at it than with it. Sometimes, as with their badly researched advice in the Money Mail article “Dare investors take a bet on fracking?”, where they suggest...
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by Refracktion · Published December 14, 2012 · Last modified December 19, 2012
One of the very interesting things to come out of yesterday was the information that Cuadrilla’s engineers did not tell their senior management about the earth tremors which occurred near Blackpool in April and May 2011. You can see Leon Jennings, Health, Safety & Environment Director at Cuadrilla Resources giving...
We commented earlier this week about the fact that Mr Menzies appeared inordinately pleased with his failure to secure an independent panel to oversee shale gas regulation. Of course we didn’t just comment here, we wrote to him as well. Yesterday he raised the issue again in parliament to Energy...
“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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