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by Refracktion · Published December 12, 2012 · Last modified December 13, 2012
How very disappointing to read Mark Menzies MP’s comment in the Lytham St Annes Express about how satisfied he is about the creation of The Office for Unconventional Gas. One of those positives of course was the creation of the Office for Unconventional Gas – a direct response I feel...
There has been an outpouring of articles in the press over the last few days from the usual suspects on the Conservative Right. A veritable broadside of bullshit from the government. Lord Lawson posted a particularly fatuous example in the Daily Mail on Friday. If you want to see why...
Dangers / Information Level - Basic / ORIS / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published December 9, 2012
What we do NOT need is another government body costing more tax payers’ money and making life easier for Mr Osborne’s friends like Lord Browne by “streamlining” and “simplifying” the already inadequate regulatory regime.
Environment / House Prices / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 4, 2012
With George Osborne’s widely trailed permission to continue fracking due tomorrow we thought you’d like to see what we have lying in store for us in the Fylde Francis Egan (CEO-Cuadrilla) stated in Dec 2012 that USA had drilled 60,000 wells in the three years that they have been doing...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 2, 2012
#Fracking company admits its investors may be losing patience Cuadrilla may not be prepared to wait much longer. “If we get a negative decision this week, we would have little alternative than to walk away,” Mr Egan said. We have proven that there is gas and that it will flow....
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 2, 2012
This government came into power on a wave of promises. Who can forget the sight of David Cameron in the Arctic, as a guest of WWF, hugging a husky and promising us “The greenest government ever”. A sight that some of us might now wish to linger on for quite...
Energy Prices / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published November 29, 2012
You could almost be forgiven for thinking that there IS no policy to impose shale gas fracking on the Fylde Coast!
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 29, 2012
It’s good to see that Refracktion are already being listened to in the news! Mixed reaction to Cuadrilla fracking survey results by David Simister http://www.champnews.com/newsstory.aspx?story=3033027 MORE residents support controversial ‘fracking’ operations being carried out near Banks than oppose it – according to a survey commissioned by the firm carrying them...
Following a vote in the European Parliament this week Euro MPs did not vote to support a moratorium on shale gas development. Given the “quality of the debate” we have to say that this was perhaps not particularly surprising. In this clip you can hear two highly paid people (who...
Air Polllution / Dangers / Environment / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published November 26, 2012
In November 2012 UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) published The Emissions Gap Report 2012. There is an Executive Summary available on the page which makes it very clear that action on climate change needs to be scaled-up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance...
“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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