Horizontal wells – the implications for landowners. How much it will be worth for farmers to lease their land for fracking is still an unknown in the UK, but it’s clearer what will happen for landowners whose acreage is undermined by horizontal wells. If the frackers are crafty and never...
Parliament Today on Radio 4 last Friday had a segment on shale gas. As always it is interesting to see how our elected representatives disport themselves whilst “looking after our interests”. Play -> Parliament Today R4 Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander does an impression of the unpopular schoolboy trying to ingratiate...
Letter sent to Lancashire County Council Development Control Dear Sir / Madam I am concerned by proposals that according to UKOOG proposals (which appear to be supported by central government) fracking companies would pay 1% revenues “allocated approximately 2/3rd to the local community and 1/3rd at the county level”. As decisions...
This letter was sent today to our local MP in the Fylde, Mark Menzies We will let you know how he replies: Dear Mark Would you be kind enough to respond formally to this email? A lot has been made of the community benefits package announced for fracking, but to...
The recent debacle in Balcombe where the Environment agency found itself asleep at the wheel until Friends of the Earth alerted it to shortcomings in its own permitting for Cuadrilla’s current exploration operations, shows us how ludicrous Mr Cameron’s rhetoric that “No regulation must get in the way” of shale...
The government’s consultation on the Growth & Infrastructure Bill was published today and includes this After considering the responses received and comments made during the passage of the Growth and Infrastructure Act, the Government has concluded that applications for planning permission for onshore oil and gas schemes, including any future...
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by Refracktion · Published May 13, 2013
Two months ago we posed the question of why Cuadrilla were claiming to be voluntarily delaying their drilling at Anna’s Road Now, they had been waiting rather impatiently for nearly 2 years for the unofficial ban on fracking to be lifted. They messed up their drilling at Anna’s road and...
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by Refracktion · Published April 28, 2013
Friday saw the Parliamentary Committee on Energy and Climate Change release its report entitled The Impact of Shale Gas on Energy Markets – Energy and Climate Change Over at Fracking Digest they have done a great job at summarising the meat of the report for easier digestion. Having read the...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 28, 2013
As many of you will know Cuadrilla make a big thing of their responsiveness to local community issues and their PR company, PPS Group, man a Community Helpline 0800 170 1115 (24hr message service outside office hours) We contacted them by email with the following query 10 days ago In...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published March 25, 2013
The mission statement of OUGO (Office of Unconventional Gas) was published and confirmed the simple fact that the UK government is absolutely determined to push ahead with shale gas and other unconventional gas and oil development at any cost. The brief included: “Making the most of our natural resources, Enabling...
“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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