With Liz Truss’s backing fracking policy in disarray, the industry is starting to realise that that its reprieve might be rather short lived, so we are seeing a concerted (if not very successful) attempt to influence public opinion by pushing the usual buttons. Charles McAllister of industry mouthpiece UKOOG has...
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...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published March 12, 2019
Yesterday UKOOG (The UK Onshore Operators’ Group) released a new report called “Updated shale gas production scenarios“. A scenario is literally “that which is pinned to the scenery” and it looks to us as though the scenery here is pretty shoddy. First of all let’s be clear about what the...
Dangers / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published September 16, 2018 · Last modified September 19, 2018
A Northwest MP wrote to Claire Perry MP in her capacity as Minister for Clean Growth and Energy. In his letter he raised concerns about shale gas extraction on behalf of his constituents. Ms Perry responded with a letter containing the usual government platitudes. Here is how it concluded: The...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 24, 2017 · Last modified May 18, 2018
Regular readers may be aware that local engineer Mike Hill was subjected to a protracted smear campaign by pro-fracking activists. We believe that in making a host of unfounded, unsustainable but ultimately very damaging insinuations against an honest man the pro-fracking activists concerned not only crossed a line into totally...
Fracking is a process that is struggling to gain a foothold in the UK. As the companies involved scrabble to get permission to drill across vast swathes of the countryside, they are also fighting a battle to win the hearts and minds of the population, because they know that without...
Environment / House Prices / Industry Tactics / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Property Damage / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published January 15, 2017
UKOOG issued a new report on Fracking on 10th January 2017, with a press release claiming “UKOOG publishes study showing limited impact of shale gas development on countryside” With no sense of irony, they gave the report the title “DEVELOPING SHALE GAS AND MAINTAINING THE BEAUTY OF THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE”...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published May 24, 2016 · Last modified May 26, 2016
Much has already been written about yesterday’s decision at NYCC, so I am going to concentrate on one statement that particularly struck me during the day. I was sure I heard Ken Cronin of UKOOG explaining that UKOOG were working on the assumption that pad density would be “approximately 10...
Industry Tactics / Information Level - Medium / Political Issues / Public Opinion / Traffic
by Refracktion · Published October 28, 2015
After UKOOG’s embarrassing climb down over their estimates of truck movements on their web sites we asked them for further clarification as we reported here We sent this email to them Subject: Vehicle movements Date: 8 October 2015 14:35:06 BST To: info@ukoog.org.uk Dear Sir On your web site you have...
Dangers / Environment / Industry Tactics / Information Level - Advanced / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published October 6, 2015 · Last modified August 3, 2016
UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG)is the trade body which, amongst other things, promotes fracking to the nation. On their “What it looks like” web page until very recently they made the following claim about truck movements per well pad: Now 300 truck movements a year is less than 1...
“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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Take the advice of Greg Clark, ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
"Those who are prepared to organise to be more effective and more efficient should be able to reap substantially the rewards of that boldness ...
Take power now. Don’t let yourself, any longer, be ruled by someone else"
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