Gainsborough / Industry Tactics / Locations
by Refracktion · Published February 27, 2025 · Last modified February 28, 2025
Questionable fracking claims are not exactly new, but we did think they might have gone away or at least been given a quiet retirement. After all, it hardly seems like 5 minutes since climate campaigners were celebrating the appearance of decommissioning equipment at Cuadrilla’s site at Preston New Road. Then...
Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Media / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 11, 2022
In yesterday’s Sunday Express an open letter from a number of the usual suspects (Brexity types turned climate change mitigation avoiders) like Tim Martin and Lance Forman claims: The United Kingdom has enough natural gas to take back control of our energy policy at least until we have developed nuclear...
Today saw the publication of the BEIS Wave 28 public attitudes survey. The questions on fracking have remained after going missing in Wave 26, and reappearing in Wave 27 and they make grim reading for the fracking companies. Support has nosedived to its lowest level ever – the same 13%...
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:
Energy Prices / Energy Security / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 12, 2018
The behaviour of the Russian state has come under scrutiny recently with the recent events in Salisbury. Predictably these events have been used to try to bolster the shale gas/energy security myth. After all who wants to be reliant on an unpredictable or unprincipled regime for something as important as...
Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published May 22, 2017 · Last modified May 23, 2017
So we now know what the Conservative Party has in mind for fracking if they get re-elected in June. Or at least we know what they would like us to believe they will do, as a manifesto promises from the Conservative Party haven’t always been reliable. Here is the passage...
Local engineer Mike Hill has now taken a good look at the recent paper on fracking from the Church of England that the shale gas PR machine rather desperately claimed endorsed fracking. He seems rather unimpressed – you can read his observations here http://media.wix.com/ugd/b0aabf_5902a55b06fd4338a56db38dd8687240.pdf Amusingly the Blackpool Gazette has now...
Fracking is a process that is struggling to gain a foothold in the UK. As the companies involved scrabble to get permission to drill across vast swathes of the countryside, they are also fighting a battle to win the hearts and minds of the population, because they know that without...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 26, 2016
Today’s Times front page carries an article about a draft ruling made by the ASA on 5 complaints made about a Friends of the Earth Leaflet by fracktastic tag team of The Reverend Roberts and the now discredited Ken Wilkinson. Interestingly according to ASA procedures, all draft rulings must remain...
Campaigning / Industry Tactics / Meetings / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 17, 2016 · Last modified October 10, 2016
Following on from our last post about the lack of morality and integrity displayed by Ken Wilkinson and his (so far) anonymous accomplice in trying to wreck Mike Hill’s career, we are genuinely surprised to be able to bring you two more examples of things the pro-frackers don’t appear to...
“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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"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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