It is a common tactic of PR campaigns to try to capitalise on people’s natural group behaviour by presenting the desired opinion as a majority. This media manipulation technique is called ‘appeal to consensus’ as most people instinctively want to be considered ‘normal’. One way of doing this is to...
A poll in the Daily Mirror which has run for 3 dyas shows 93% of people responded “No” to the question “Are you in favour of fracking?” At one point yesterday the poll showed 94% against. It seem that the events at Balcombe and the police’s apparently heavy handed approach...
The cartoon does exaggerate for effect, but then do does Dan Byles MP when he speaks in parliament on the benefits 🙂
Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 18, 2013
In order to justify the dash for gas, the Government is relying on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to allow them to claim that shale gas will not breach existing commitments to climate change gas emission reductions. The problem is that for all their waffle, it just isn’t happening As...
This from Alan Tootill – But before we quote his comments, it seems that the government doesn’t really understand EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery rates) or is hopelessly optimistic about them. Either way that’s rather worrying! The maths is rather simple – to calculate the number of wells required to extract...
Local MP Mark Menzies spoke in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday. He suggested that the interpretation of “well site” for the £100k payment during the exploration/appraisal stage in the OFFUGO charter should be per well and not per well site. It is therefore important for the...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 17, 2013 · Last modified September 11, 2013
We are very unimpressed with the claims made in the recent IoD report on shale gas that there might be 74,000 jobs created by the government’s dash for gas. We recently tried to raise this with Dan Byles MP who does keep repeating the claim On July 12th we wrote...
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by Refracktion · Published July 13, 2013 · Last modified July 15, 2013
We have been made aware of the existence on an example of a rare and endangered species, which was spotted just this week in London and which may get in the way of fracking in the UK. Coeruleus illegitimus senex (Common name Peter Lilley) was spotted in the House of...
The Sun ran a poll asking if readers were in favour of fracking. After two days of saturation coverage offering readers visions of riches beyond their wildest dreams and lapdancers agogo – or should that be akimbo? – they announced the result rather prematurely here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5007564/Fracking-public-support.html saying “A poll we...
Sun Reader’s vote for lap dancers and man camps. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5007564/Fracking-public-support.html In other news turkeys vote for Christmas. Yesterday the Sun ran a poll asking readers if they wanted fracking. It’s main illustration showed two strippers and two sad middle aged blokes leering at them with fistfuls of dollar bills. Oddly...
“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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