Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 28, 2016 · Last modified April 29, 2016
It seems that the Backing Fracking bandwagon is running out of steam in spite of the massive PR effort from the government and the fracking companies. DECC’s public attitude tracker has now reached Wave 17. Results from polling in March show that more people were opposed (31%) to fracking than...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 22, 2016 · Last modified March 23, 2016
Unless I am misunderstanding something it seems that China still has its eyes firmly on UK shale assets. This was made clear as long ago as 2011 in an article in the Guardian This week it seems they nibbled a bit more off AJ Lucas (and by extension the Bowland...
Campaigning / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 7, 2016 · Last modified March 8, 2016
So now we’ve seen the list of speakers at the Inquiry this week. On Tuesday evening we have 7 people who are going to speak in favour of fracking and 30 speaking against. On Thursday we will see 3 speaking in favour and 69 speaking against it. The list for...
So – whilst one part of the government is intent on pushing fracking onto an unwilling population on the Fylde, another part – this time the NHS – is trying to turn Westby (home of the proposed Preston New Road fracking site) into a “healthy new town”. The new housing...
This from yesterday’s Hansard, on the day on which the enquiry, which will be decided by Greg Clark, Minister for Communities and Local Government, started. Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Labour My Lords, I declare an interest as a Lancashire resident. Will the Minister care to take away and reflect on...
I’ll leave the erudite Ruth Hayhurst to report on the important goings on at the Enquiry today, but one story that did come out shows that it’s one world for those protesting against fracking and another one for Cuadrilla and their cronies. We heard today that Cuadrilla have a hospitality...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published February 8, 2016 · Last modified January 3, 2017
Given what I read in their carefully crafted press releases and on their social media sites, it seems that the astroturfing group which calls itself “Backing Fracking” would have you believe that they are made up of ordinary “residents” who are nothing to do with “the industry and businesses on...
Apparently when it’s on a press release or it’s on a website! Back in 2012 we raised a series of issues with the Advertising Standards Authority regarding a leaflet sent out to local residents by Cuadrilla. Several of our complaints were upheld in the ruling of 2013 including one which...
The Daily Telegraph this morning published a letter sent by three government ministers to George Osborne, The Chancellor last July, apparently in response to a request for a “joint plan” from all of them for how to impose the fracking industry on an unwilling country. The text of the letter...
One of our readers has contacted us with a guest post which is reproduced below. It makes very interesting reading: There has been some condemnation recently of MP Kevin Hollinrake, who was a Vice Chair of the APPG on Unconventional Oil and Gas. He resigned when he was made aware...
“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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