Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 16, 2018 · Last modified September 19, 2018
A Northwest MP wrote to Claire Perry MP in her capacity as Minister for Clean Growth and Energy. In his letter he raised concerns about shale gas extraction on behalf of his constituents. Ms Perry responded with a letter containing the usual government platitudes. Here is how it concluded: The...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 13, 2018 · Last modified September 19, 2018
Westminster Hall debates are strange events where, for half an hour, MPs get to grandstand by poking sticks at a minister who responds by reading out whatever policy line the civil servant sitting behind passes to them. At the end of the time allowed, the debate generally lapses and nobody...
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises” – Mae West With that in mind lets take a look at the commitments made by Cuadrilla to the county of Lancashire back in December 2016. How are they doing after nearly two years on each of these? Let’s take...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
This presentation is well worth half an hour of your time. It is by Jeremy Leggett who has extensive industry and academic experience in the extractive industries. History of oil & gas production from shale in pictures & charts : why US shale will crash and UK will fail:
Policing / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 31, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
On Monday 30th July we witnessed one of the most unsavoury episodes to date in the Public Relations war that is being waged against fracking protesters here in the UK. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (which describes itself as being “made up of the ten Greater Manchester councils and Mayor,...
This article first appeared in edited form on Desmog.co.uk This year we have experienced the longest heat wave since 1976, and we learned this weekend that the North West of England is heading for a hosepipe ban in a couple of weeks. We have also learned recently that Cuadrilla have...
Further to our article on whether it was advisable for Brian Coope to be involved with the vile Reclaim The Road page / group, we had a bit of a spat with Jim O’Neil (arch profracker) on a local Facebook Group. Jim swore blind that the pottymouthed RTR group was...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published June 28, 2018 · Last modified June 29, 2018
We were shocked to read a tweet by @Lady_ClaireUK on Twitter today. “A supposedly-neutral member of the Independent Advisory Group for @LancsPolice, Brian Coope, is also a member of a #fracking astroturf group, lobbying for Cuadrilla. This group & its members have been reported for harassment & incitement to violence”...
Energy Prices / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published April 12, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
So this week there have been two reports released which should have reduced the fracking industry’s stocks of paracetamol. The first came from the University of Stirling and looked at the research that underpinned the Scottish parliament’s ban on fracking. In the first study of its kind, the team compared the...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 12, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
It seems that we protesters are in fact merely unknowing participants in Cuadrilla’s thought experiment. Like the eponymous cat we appear to exist in two different states simultaneously. Cuadrilla’s Technical Director Mark Lappin was reported at the most recent Community Liaison Group meeting as stating that protest action at Preston...
“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."
Twitter 7:24 AM · Feb 28, 2022
Take the advice of Greg Clark, ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
"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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