Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 22, 2015 · Last modified January 16, 2016
In the wake of the car-crash fail that was the Backing Fracking “rally” next to Blackpool Football Club we thought that maybe this hilarious #socialmedaifail video Should be added to this one As far as we can tell the only big thing that started on Friday was the lorry carrying...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 19, 2015 · Last modified November 22, 2015
Sometimes keeping up with the fracking debate can be dry and tedious. At other times though we are treated to entertainment which makes it all worth while. Today at Blackpool Football Club the bitterness which seem to surround the place whilst the Oyston sagas rumble on gave way to pantomime...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 18, 2015 · Last modified November 19, 2015
Over the last two days we have been looking at the links between the so-called North West Energy Task Force and Westbourne Communications. We started to look at this when one of the NWETF panellists, Lee Petts, told us that “panelists aren’t involved in the day-to-day mechanics” of running the...
The North West Energy Task Force has been in the news over the last two days as allegations surfaced around suggestions that the list of supporters of fracking sent as signatories to a letter to LCC in January actually contained people who may not have consented to be on the...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published November 17, 2015 · Last modified May 3, 2016
STOP PRESS: And it’s back – but minus three “supporters” who are presumably not supporters and with one added. The current version is therefore rather misleading as it now suggests that the list provided to LCC did not have these three names on it when rather clearly it did and...
Tonight we were astounded to read this Press Release from Frack Free Lancashire in which it is alleged that the North West Energy Task Force has added a significant percentage of its “supporters” to a letter to Lancashire County Council without them even being aware of it, and in a...
DECC released the results of Wave 15 of their opinion tracker. Since Wave 8 (December 2013) they have been tracking public support or opposition to fracking. Over those two years the situation has shifted radically as can be see from this graph: Over these two year we have seen support...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published November 9, 2015
As we read further down IGas’s page on Water Protection and Usage we were struck by yet another apparent misrepresentation of the truth. yes, they actually state that: There have also been more than one million wells drilled around the world, and in no case has there been a single...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published November 8, 2015 · Last modified November 9, 2015
Glancing at IGas’s website we were struck by the interesting claim The quantity of water required to frack an onshore shale gas well is broadly the same amount used to irrigate the typical British golf course each month. There are over 7,500 golf courses across the UK. This is also...
Dangers / Environment / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 28, 2015 · Last modified October 29, 2015
Our local MP Mark Menzies (Con) has already told us that he will support fracking provided there are “robust regulations in place“, but until now he has pretty much sat on the fence. Today, in a surprising attack on those opposing fracking, he accuses opponents of fracking of “scaremongering” and...
“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."
Parliament 22 September 2022
"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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