Tagged: Corin Taylor

This, sadly, is where the spin gets us

This, sadly, is where the spin gets us

Yesterday in the debate on the Energy Bill few dared stand up for fracking, but one who did was South Suffolk Conservative MP James Cartlidge. He reasoned thus: “The point is that some of the stuff we’re hearing coming out in the media warns of terrible things that could happen....

The FT refutes the IOD job predictions citing new evidence from AMEC

The FT refutes the IOD job predictions citing new evidence from AMEC

A while back we published a critique of the Institute of Directors predictions that fracking would result in 74,000 jobs. https://www.refracktion.com/index.php/dan-byles-and-the-74000-jobs-joke/ We argued that the basis of the calculations was childishly simplistic, and we asked how an MP like Dan Byles could put his name to supporting them. We were...

Fracking report author joins Centrica

Fracking report author joins Centrica

Regular readers may recall that we were not impressed by the claims made by Corin Taylor of the IoD in a Cuadrilla sponsored report on shale gas opportunities. In this report he claimed that fracking would lead to 74,000 jobs being created. We asked him how he got to this...