Dan Byles and his All-Party Group on Fracking made the first page of Private Eye this week! Private Eye are at last waking up to some of the questionable aspects of this government’s much vaunted “Dash for Gas” and in todays’ issue 1347 they raise some interesting questions about arch...
Local MP Mark Menzies spoke in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday. He suggested that the interpretation of “well site” for the £100k payment during the exploration/appraisal stage in the OFFUGO charter should be per well and not per well site. It is therefore important for the...
Parliament Today on Radio 4 last Friday had a segment on shale gas. As always it is interesting to see how our elected representatives disport themselves whilst “looking after our interests”. Play -> Parliament Today R4 Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander does an impression of the unpopular schoolboy trying to ingratiate...
This letter was sent today to our local MP in the Fylde, Mark Menzies We will let you know how he replies: Dear Mark Would you be kind enough to respond formally to this email? A lot has been made of the community benefits package announced for fracking, but to...
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2013-07-05a.162967.h&s=speaker%3A24804#g162967.q0 July 5th 2013 Mark Menzies (Fylde, Conservative) To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to ensure that any community benefit revenue that is derived from shale gas is apportioned to people living in the immediate vicinity of well sites. Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks, Conservative) I...
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by Refracktion · Published March 14, 2013
What are we to make of our newly parachuted-in MP? Here in Fylde we grew accustomed to being represented by an MP, Michael Jack, who clearly held the interests of his constituents close to his heart. More than that, his wife, Alison, campaigned tirelessy and effectively to defend the area...
We commented earlier this week about the fact that Mr Menzies appeared inordinately pleased with his failure to secure an independent panel to oversee shale gas regulation. Of course we didn’t just comment here, we wrote to him as well. Yesterday he raised the issue again in parliament to Energy...
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by Refracktion · Published December 12, 2012 · Last modified December 13, 2012
How very disappointing to read Mark Menzies MP’s comment in the Lytham St Annes Express about how satisfied he is about the creation of The Office for Unconventional Gas. One of those positives of course was the creation of the Office for Unconventional Gas – a direct response I feel...
“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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