Tagged: Tina Rothery

Putting Lancashire First

Putting Lancashire First

It was interesting to see the breakdown of costs provided by Cuadrilla in their claim against Tina Rothery, and how they tried their hardest to limit the amounts spent and used the opportunity to support business in Lancashire. Along with the other costs making up the amazing £62,871 they tried...

Nowells Nowells

Wishing our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Frack Free New Year – we have updated our favourite carol to reflect this year’s events The First Nowell The First “No Well”, the Angels did say Was to certain poor frackers in fields as they lay In fields where they...

Unleashing The Anti-Fracking Lion(ess)

  “The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” St Augustine     So now the dust has settled a bit on Friday’s proceedings at Preston Courthouse in the matter of Cuadrilla V Tina Rothery, what do we know?...

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope’s line was borrowed back in the 60s in the Times newspaper (when it still had a decent reputation) to ridicule the prosecution and imprisonment of Mick Jagger  for possession of Italian pep pills (benzedrine). In 2016 the line resonates with those of us who are aghast to see...

An Unwelcome Gift

An Unwelcome Gift

I was reading Tina Rothery’s blog and came across her notes for last night’s presentation in Lancaster. It struck a real chord, as somebody who has been labelled as an “activist” over the last few days because of my complaint to the ASA about Cuadrilla’s newsletter. I am not an...