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Fracking Greenwash: Revenge Of The Frackademics

Posted on April 22, 2013 by radix
  • Second frackademic scandal in UK
  • Following Durham University one
  • Pro-fracking report by Grantham Institute
  • Cuadrilla Chairman Lord Browne on board
  • Several other members have fracking links
  • Funded by ex-Shell investment strategist
  • Heavily invested in fracking companies
  • Including UK fackers Cuadrilla and IGas
  • Supports pro-fracking spin in US

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UK Treasury director Baroness Hogg is also on the board of BG Group, which own the Tara gasfield where 44% of wells are leaking

44 percent of wells leaking at UK Treasury director’s gasfield: Australian government

Posted on April 20, 2013 by fred

Over 44 percent of wells are leaking in an Australian gasfield overseen by UK Treasury director Baroness Hogg, according to the Queensland government (see p4 of linked pdf). Almost half the wells tested at the Tara field in Queensland show … Continue reading →

Frackademics In UK Pushing Industry Spin

Posted on April 10, 2013 by radix
  • New Durham University Pro-Shale Gas Report
  • Highlights University’s Hijacking By Industry PR
  • Authors Have Multiple Fracking Industry Links
  • Durham Energy Institute Controlled By Industry
  • ReFINE: Durham Fracking Propaganda Group
  • Links To Similar Organisations Across Europe
  • Parallels With Frackademic Scandals In US
  • Report Carefully Avoids All The Real Issues
  • No Hint Of The Scale Of Fracking Threat

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Civil Disobedience will be outcome of Dash for Gas

Civil Disobedience will be outcome of Dash for Gas

Posted on February 18, 2013 by fred

The growing anti-fracking movement has become a major headache for the gas industry. Rising from nowhere eighteen months ago the movement has become so large that these days gas drilling is rarely mentioned without a second word: “controversial”. This is … Continue reading →

Direct Action used by blockaders in New South Wales

Direct Action used by blockaders in New South Wales

Posted on February 16, 2013 by qwertyuiop

Blockades and actions across Australia are enjoying high levels of community support. Numbers alone are not necessarily enough. But adding direct action tactics to a well informed, challenging and potentially disobedient crowd create major headaches for the drillers and the … Continue reading →

Fracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside

Posted on January 30, 2013 by radix
  • New UK government energy strategy
  • Increases reliance on natural gas
  • Assumption that fracking can fill gap
  • Minor onshore oil and gas in UK to date
  • Fracking requires huge amount of drilling
  • 54,000 wells to supply 40 power stations
  • Would cover 7,000 sq miles (size of Wales)
  • 36,000 wells to offset North Sea decline
  • Would cover an additional 4,700 sq miles
  • Massive impacts give population density

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Defining Extreme Energy: A Process not a Category

Posted on January 24, 2013 by radix
  • Extreme energy often defined as a category
  • Alternative is extreme energy as a process
  • Easy to extract resources targeted first
  • As depleted, more intense extraction needed
  • Extraction effort will steadily increase
  • Energy extraction displaces other activities
  • Process has happened throughout history
  • But now the process is massively accelerating
  • Driven by unsustainable energy consumption

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Spin-busting: What is actually going on in Lancashire?

Spin-busting: What is actually going on in Lancashire?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by John Gray

Whichever way you look at it, Cuadrilla Resources have had a pretty ropey couple of years. The squeaky clean, everything by the book shale pioneers induced an earthquake back in April 2011 and have since been central to a very … Continue reading →

Foolish Energy Minister shows fractures within 720 feet of Balcombe village

Posted on January 19, 2013 by fred

When recently-appointed Energy Minister John Hayes showed his lack of fracking knowledge last month this political huckster inadvertently highlighted a troubling fact: at Cuadrilla’s site in Balcombe, West Sussex, fractures could reach within 720 feet of the surface. Hayes claimed … Continue reading →

How To Object

Posted on January 2, 2013 by qwertyuiop

NEW APPLICATION 05/13/0018 Anna’s Road  EIA for First Horizontal Well Quick Links 08/12/1032 BECCONSALL EXPLORATION SITE, BANKSP/12/0521/FUL LETHAM MOSS FALKIRK 12/00576/FUL POWDRAKE ROAD NEAR AIRTHReturn Water & Mining Waste Disposal Environment Agency Permit Applications12/04304/FUL Keynsham (with great guidance) Guidance Lancashire … Continue reading →

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