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by Refracktion · Published March 12, 2018
The behaviour of the Russian state has come under scrutiny recently with the recent events in Salisbury. Predictably these events have been used to try to bolster the shale gas/energy security myth. After all who wants to be reliant on an unpredictable or unprincipled regime for something as important as...
According to reports Communities close to fracking projects to get another £1bn chancellor Philip Hammond announces in Autumn Statement Of course this isn’t really “another” £1bn – It’s the same £1bn they were wafting about earlier in the year and which was also announced in last year’s Autumn Statement –...
At the public session of the inquiry I gave a presentation to the Inspector on what the industry’s own figures might suggest as a reasonable estimate for the number of jobs that fracking might create in the UK – direct, indirect and induced (or in layman’s terms, within the fracking...
I am obviously not referring to the comments on the Telegraph pages which seem to be the unique preserve of a certain kind of swivel-eyed, anti-EU, foaming at the mouth Farage-alike. I am referring here to the Guardian comments on a “Comment Is Free” article penned by an American politician...
Following a vote in the European Parliament this week Euro MPs did not vote to support a moratorium on shale gas development. Given the “quality of the debate” we have to say that this was perhaps not particularly surprising. In this clip you can hear two highly paid people (who...
“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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