At 4:30 this morning BBC’s Hard Talk featured Francis Egan being grilled by Stephen Sackur The video must make uncomfortable viewing if you are a pro-fracker as Mr Egan stumbles through a not very convincing case under some testing questions from his interviewer. Some highlights: At 5:26 Stephen Sackur ...
Just to underline the unfortunate nature of Mr Egan’s stated desire make us here in the Fylde just like Pennsylvania, here is an article from today’s Daily Mail Still at least we might get a free special-combo pizza and some fizzy pop with our pollution
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...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Basic / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 18, 2013
Back in August we read with amazement that Francis Egan of Cuadrilla had had death threats made to him These claims were of course widely publicised in the Mail, Telegraph, Independent and Guardian. Even The Sun got in on the act although they probably had to illustrate the article with...
We’ve been away on holiday but it’s hard to avoid the constant sound of feet hitting mouths even from a few hundred miles away. Some of our favourites: Lord Howell and his ill-judged Nimbyism exemplified by his “desolate” North East comments. Lord Howell’s attempts to extricate himself by claiming he...
We feel we may have given the impression that Francis Egan was trying to mislead listeners in his radio interview with Radio Lancashire this morning. However, it has been pointed out to us that we may have been traducing a philanthropic benefactor. Listening again to the interview we can confirm...
Interviewed this morning on Radio Lancashire Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s CEO, made the absolutely astounding claim, that “the actual spend on any development itself would run into several hundred billions, most of which , we would hope would be spent in Lancashire.” The country’s biggest shale gas cheerleader, the Institute of...
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...
Francis Egan, the CEO of Cuadrilla, does love to bang on about the need for a “fact based” conversation. He likes to pretend that anyone who is concerned about fracking is a scare-mongering fool who is on a mission to freeze the nation’s grannies to death. We are not sure...
“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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