Balcombe / Environment / Information Level - Basic / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 9, 2013
This comment on Cuadrilla’s record can be found in the comments section of the Daily Telegraph article on Cuadrilla’s most recent breach Let’s be very clear about Cuadrilla’s record. In 2011 their fracking caused earthquakes because they had performed inadequate geological surveys. They deformed their well casing at PH1 well...
It would appear that as of 5th September LCC are still accepting comments regarding the Grange Road Singleton extension application If you are short of time please take a moment to copy and paste this template into an email and add your details to the bottom before emailing it to...
Action / Balcombe / Campaigning / Information Level - Basic
by Refracktion · Published September 3, 2013
Balcombe NEWSFLASH! – orginally posted on the http://www.frackingdigest.co.uk/ site Cuadrilla have withdrawn their applications for modifying their existing application (6 months extra time, and the modified flaring). That’s the good news. The bad news is that they plan to put in a new application, on 27th September. It might take...
Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 1, 2013 · Last modified July 2, 2013
Guest blogger Alan Tootill subjects the reports of hugely increased gas reserves to some scrutiny Last week the British Geological Survey (BGS) produced a new estimate of how much gas there is in the shale rock under the North of England. This was hailed by the media as showing what...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 26, 2013 · Last modified April 28, 2013
We thought the reaction from Cuadrilla was worthy of a post all on it’s own. Let’s take a look at how they reacted (and also how they didn’t) Here is what their CEO Francis Egan had to say, as reported in the Blackpool Gazette. We would love to be able...
It has been interesting to see how far the news of the ASA ruling, which effectively bans Cuadrilla from making certain claims about the safety of fracking, has travelled. The Guardian was the first paper to publish an article http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/24/caudrilla-censured-fracking-safety-claims Curiously this article suggested (incorrectly) that the ASA had suggested...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published April 24, 2013 · Last modified April 27, 2013
Cuadrilla’s community newsletter banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. In July 2012 Cuadrilla and their PR agency, PPS Group, created a “community newsletter” which was posted to thousands of households in Lancashire. It contained claims about the safety of fracking which were evidently not sustainable, so local group Refracktion (www.refracktion.org)...
We keep hearing it – Cuadrilla repeat it at every turn because they know that it is one of their routes to gaining community acceptance. We, and many others have questioned the promised employment boom on the basis that whilst a few temporary local jobs would of course be created...
We are starting to get concerned about the welfare of Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla. We have noted before that there seems to be something going around locally which makes people forget things that they said recently and then say something which contradicts it shortly afterwards. Our MP, Mark Menzies,...
Energy Prices / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 24, 2013
One of the little discussed issues around the recent announcement that the government is going to throw tax breaks at an industry which insists it doesn’t actually want or need them (see https://www.refracktion.org/index.php/fracking-and-the-budget/) is that it turns us all into investors in this business, as it is now OUR money...
“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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