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...
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...
Dan Byles and his All-Party Group on Fracking made the first page of Private Eye this week! Private Eye are at last waking up to some of the questionable aspects of this government’s much vaunted “Dash for Gas” and in todays’ issue 1347 they raise some interesting questions about arch...
We are in awe of the ability of government ministers to put their feet into their mouths with such consistent accuracy. Lord Howell’s gaffes this week are classics of the genre. Now, one of the accusations that gets levelled at those opposed to fracking in the Fylde from time to...
Industry Tactics / Political Issues
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2013 · Last modified October 28, 2016
Speaking at the Shale Gas World UK 2013 conference, Andrew Dawson, Councillor for Frodsham – Cheshire West and Chester Council and serving on Frodsham Town Council, recommended to the assembled fracking companies that they should use schoolchildren to get their message across: “Can I just push the schools to you...
We learned today that Dan Byles has appointed Lee Petts, managing director at waste and environmental management specialists Remsol and occasional Cuadrilla advocate to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Gas and Oil (APPGUGO) http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/remsol-appointed-to-government-group-1-5881841 Now Mr Petts is a likeable enough chap for a pro-fracker and we can...
Local MP Mark Menzies spoke in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday. He suggested that the interpretation of “well site” for the £100k payment during the exploration/appraisal stage in the OFFUGO charter should be per well and not per well site. It is therefore important for the...
Political Issues / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 17, 2013 · Last modified September 11, 2013
We are very unimpressed with the claims made in the recent IoD report on shale gas that there might be 74,000 jobs created by the government’s dash for gas. We recently tried to raise this with Dan Byles MP who does keep repeating the claim On July 12th we wrote...
Parliament Today on Radio 4 last Friday had a segment on shale gas. As always it is interesting to see how our elected representatives disport themselves whilst “looking after our interests”. Play -> Parliament Today R4 Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander does an impression of the unpopular schoolboy trying to ingratiate...
...and from Pro-Frack anonymous troll Eli-Goth we received the following ringing (if illiterate) endorsement over on Drill or Drop:
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