Earthquakes / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Regulation
by Refracktion · Published September 21, 2022 · Last modified September 22, 2022
The TLS is needed, but it is not fit for purpose and needs to be tightened up not relaxed! We last addressed this issue back in February 2019 when the fracking industry was desperately lobbying government to allow them to carry on regardless of the induced seismic activity that everyone...
Campaigning / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 6, 2022
It is fair to say that Mr Menzies and I have not always seen eye to eye on a raft of issues, including fracking. Today, however, I listened to his interview with Graham Liver on Radio Lancashire just after 7 am and I have to say it sounded as though...
Earthquakes / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion / Uncategorized
by Refracktion · Published September 2, 2019
It is no news to anybody now that Cuadrilla appear to have lost control of the seismic activity at their PNR 2 well at Preston New Road. We have now seen 128 seismic events registered by the BGS. Of these 9 have been amber level events and 9 have been...
Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published April 12, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
It seems that we protesters are in fact merely unknowing participants in Cuadrilla’s thought experiment. Like the eponymous cat we appear to exist in two different states simultaneously. Cuadrilla’s Technical Director Mark Lappin was reported at the most recent Community Liaison Group meeting as stating that protest action at Preston...
Things have not been going swimmingly for Cuadrilla (unless we imagine them splashing around on their soggy well pad perhaps). This is perhaps reflected in the language they use to describe their level of confidence in their ability to extract gas from their operation at Preston New Road. Back in...
Our old friend Ben Webster – the Times’ fracking sage – reported recently on Cuadrilla’s tests from their PNR well which were “very encouraging”. He told us: Cuadrilla said that the results were in line with estimates in 2013 by the British Geological Survey for the Bowland Shale under northern...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2017 · Last modified August 15, 2017
Well Cuadrilla’s timings for Preston New Road are anyway. Today Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s boss, told Drill or Drop “We will exercise our democratic right to carry on with our lawful work at Preston New Road which is progressing to plan.” With Mr Egan it is hard to know whether even...
Policing / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2017
So, today’s front page of the Times carries an article in which “residents’ group” Backing Fracking criticise Arfon Jones, the police commissioner for North Wales, for allegedly using his position to influence a decision on pulling the Welsh Police out of the mutual aid agreement with Lancashire Constabulary. In case...
While protesting about fracking there are some dark and dramatic moments which makes it all the more surreal when it all degenerates into farce. I could hardly believe my eyes when I realised that Lancashire County Council, in its infinite wisdom has now positioned between 4 and 6 security guards...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 14, 2017 · Last modified July 15, 2017
Backing Fracking and the other industry astroturf groups are clearly struggling to engage the 50% or so of the population who are undecided in fracking, so of late they’ve been doing a bit of button pushing. In the Conservative Fylde this has mostly taken the form of demonising protesters as...
“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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