House Prices / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preese Hall / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 11, 2016 · Last modified September 8, 2016
Hot on the heels of Theresa May’s attempt to ignite the flare stack of public enthusiasm for fracking by offering householders bribes to accept it, comes an article from Mortgage Insider which fractures one of the main seams of her argument, releasing the very gas of truth into the air....
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy made an announcement yesterday. The Oil and Gas Authority will be established as an independent regulator by the UK Government, with new powers that mean it can act with greater speed and flexibility to drive investment, support jobs and further the UK’s...
What’s this I hear you ask? The Global Warming Policy Forum , a right-wing climate denier “forum”, (or “think tank”, “septic tank” or what you will) is urging the newly minted PM to rush headlong of the fracking cliff? Surely not? But yes, they are indeed! London, 8 August 2016...
This document can be downloaded from https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/shale-wealth-fund The first and most obvious comment to make is that yesterday’s media hysteria about individual households being promised tens of thousands of pounds each was clearly rubbish. The only refrences to this idea in the document are: 1.12 The government is also clear...
Dangers / House Prices / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2016
So yesterday the National Press all reported on a new consultation on fracking, launched personally, it would appear, by Theresa May. Except we haven’t yet (at the time of writing) been allowed to see its contents. Nevertheless the papers were hyperventilating about the news that individuals rather than councils would...
Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 28, 2016 · Last modified August 17, 2016
We learned this week that Lancashire for Shale, a new pro-shale group funded by local businesses and industry, held its launch reception yesterday evening (25th July 2016) for Lancashire firms at the White Tower restaurant in Blackpool to call on local and national decision-makers to get behind onshore natural gas...
Environment / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published June 14, 2016
Over the last few weeks a number of commentators have become increasingly concerned that the report from the Committee on Climate Change to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, produced under the direction of the 2015 Infrastructure Act, has not been made public. This report deals with...
In the Farmer’s Guardian this week we read that Emma Thompson and her sister Sophie are facing legal action for trespass leading from their alleged breaking of an injunction on Farmer Wensley’s field. At the end of the article there is a quote from St Francis of Egan who tells...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published May 24, 2016 · Last modified May 26, 2016
Much has already been written about yesterday’s decision at NYCC, so I am going to concentrate on one statement that particularly struck me during the day. I was sure I heard Ken Cronin of UKOOG explaining that UKOOG were working on the assumption that pad density would be “approximately 10...
As Cuadrilla parent AJ Lucas’s share fall yet again to 19c, Kerogen Investments have increased their holding, ensuring that an increasing amount of any profits from fracking in the Fylde will make their way offshore. Of course to make a profit you do have to able to sell your product...
“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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