House Prices / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preese Hall / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 11, 2016 · Last modified September 8, 2016
Hot on the heels of Theresa May’s attempt to ignite the flare stack of public enthusiasm for fracking by offering householders bribes to accept it, comes an article from Mortgage Insider which fractures one of the main seams of her argument, releasing the very gas of truth into the air....
This document can be downloaded from https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/shale-wealth-fund The first and most obvious comment to make is that yesterday’s media hysteria about individual households being promised tens of thousands of pounds each was clearly rubbish. The only refrences to this idea in the document are: 1.12 The government is also clear...
Dangers / House Prices / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published August 8, 2016
So yesterday the National Press all reported on a new consultation on fracking, launched personally, it would appear, by Theresa May. Except we haven’t yet (at the time of writing) been allowed to see its contents. Nevertheless the papers were hyperventilating about the news that individuals rather than councils would...
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...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published November 17, 2015 · Last modified May 3, 2016
STOP PRESS: And it’s back – but minus three “supporters” who are presumably not supporters and with one added. The current version is therefore rather misleading as it now suggests that the list provided to LCC did not have these three names on it when rather clearly it did and...
This morning on Radio 4’s “Today” programme we were treated to a rare pleasure. I would really like to say that is was listening to some sort of Damascene conversion on the part of the interviewee, but it was more like listening to the soundtrack of a rat, sitting on...
Campaigning / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion / The National Frackery
by Refracktion · Published September 3, 2015 · Last modified March 12, 2019
Fortunately for them, the residents of Cumbria and the Lake District are unlikely to suffer from fracking – they just have the joys of nuclear waste dumping to look forward too. Funny how this stuff all happens away from the South isn’t it? If you enjoy this please like and...
Information Level - Medium / Media / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 31, 2015 · Last modified January 5, 2016
Well the pro-frackers are treating us to a succession of “car-crash” interviews of late aren’t they? Last week it was The Rambling Reverend scaremongering about imminent blackouts if we don’t get fracking underway (ignoring the slight logical problem that an industry which wouldn’t in any circumstances be able to contribute...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published January 25, 2015 · Last modified February 9, 2015
All characters appearing in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living, dead, or awaiting judgement in heaven, is purely coincidental. ather Jack Fracket surveyed the wintry scene from a distance. He checked his Timex “Celestial TimeMaster” watch – it was 2:30 pm on January 16th 2020 and...
Campaigning / Information Level - Basic / Meetings / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 16, 2014
A while back a friend gave me what another friend, Tina, subsequently described as an unwelcome gift – an invitation to a meeting about something called fracking. Fracking is a way of extracting gas from the earth using methods which have some very detrimental effects on the environment and on...
“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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