Politicians eh? Last night it seems that Charlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover, underwent something of a Damascene conversion. Mr Elphicke made a bit of a Charlie of himself last week, when he was caught out getting rather mixed up about the differences between coal bed methane and underground coal...
Here is the letter, via the FT From Mr Tom Brown. Sir, Your support for UK shale gas (“Make haste slowly on UK shale gas”, editorial, August 6) based upon “the reduction in energy prices and the improvement in energy security” is unjustified on both grounds. Even if the extraction,...
To celebrate Rembrandt’s 407th birthday we bring you an addition to The Night Watch. We don’t feel that the flare stack adds anything positive to atmosphere (here or in real life) though. We are not sure what the Watch have been called out for but judging form the amount of...
Dali’s the The Persistence of Memory re-imagined. (Obviously we won’t forget fracking in a hurry) If you enjoy this please like and share our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Refracktion
In the first of a series of re-imaginings of famous paintings we show how Monet might have pictured his poppy field if it has been on the Fylde in the early 2020’s Monet for nothing, get your fracks at a high cost! If you enjoy this please like and share...
There will be a public meeting at Lytham Assembly Rooms on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 7:00 pm organised by Defend Lytham They have called it “Fracking – Asking the Questions” At this meeting there will be a series of short presentations on the background to fracking, the issues that...
A rather unconvincing sounding Francis Egan was interviewed alongside Tony Juniper former head of Friends of the Earth on the Sunday Politics at about 11:30. It will be on the BBC Iplayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rbxkg/Sunday_Politics_North_West_24_03_2013/ As we have now learned to expect Mr Egan came out with the usual platitudes and...
Environment / House Prices / Information Level - Basic / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published December 4, 2012
With George Osborne’s widely trailed permission to continue fracking due tomorrow we thought you’d like to see what we have lying in store for us in the Fylde Francis Egan (CEO-Cuadrilla) stated in Dec 2012 that USA had drilled 60,000 wells in the three years that they have been doing...
“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 ...
Take power now. Don’t let yourself, any longer, be ruled by someone else"
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