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...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 17, 2016 · Last modified January 18, 2016
Cuadrilla’s community engagement initiatives at their proposed fracking site at Preston new Road may have ground to a halt, but that doesn’t mean that they have stopped trying to influence opinion. Cuadrilla have a long history of using PR Companies, often in a rather inept way. A leaflet created with...
Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Roseacre Wood
by Refracktion · Published January 14, 2016
On February 9th between 9 and 11 am the Lancashire groups will be joining together to demonstrate local opposition to fracking as the planning appeal on Preston New Road and Roseacre Wood starts. Venue: Blackpool FC – Bloomfield Road Blackpool, England, Blackpool Please see this Facebook Event for further details...
It is a well worn tactic by the fracking industry to try to buy local support, and in doing so divide the community. “Look – we’ll pay for a sports hall. Great Mr Smith – you want it. Oh Mr Brown you don’t, so by opposing fracking you are denying...
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...
Well think again! Here is a timeline from Egdon Resources that shows that they hope to persuade investors that 2016 will be the year when fracking is let loose on the UK Now there IS a reason behind this optimism – according to the presentation it is taken from they...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Media
by Refracktion · Published June 13, 2015
Prospectors and protesters await crucial UK fracking decision So runs the headline in today’s Financial Times above an article which begins Britain’s leading shale gas explorer Cuadrilla has cited rural Pennsylvania in the US, home to America’s “fracking” revolution, as a model for Lancashire where it hopes within days to...
Today LCC Development Control Committee voted to allow Cuadrilla’s request to defer their consideration of their applications to consider new information on noise and traffic impacts. The decision made by the DCC was clearly a direct result of being told that they had no alternative legally, although several councillors let...
Dangers / Environment / Information Level - Medium / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published January 16, 2015
So we learned today that Cuadrilla have been granted their environmental permit which was need to allow them to extract shale gas at their proposed site at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton (For the exploratory well – not production). We knew back in November that the EA were minded to...
It was YOU! Yesterday Cuadrilla announced their decision to pull out of Anna’s Road and to restore the site (as far as is possible) to its greenfield state. Francis Egan claims that the reason for the abandonment is “technical constraints related to wintering birds”. He stated that their planning permission...
“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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"Those who are prepared to organise to be more effective and more efficient should be able to reap substantially the rewards of that boldness ...
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