This article first appeared in edited form on Desmog.co.uk This year we have experienced the longest heat wave since 1976, and we learned this weekend that the North West of England is heading for a hosepipe ban in a couple of weeks. We have also learned recently that Cuadrilla have...
Further to our article on whether it was advisable for Brian Coope to be involved with the vile Reclaim The Road page / group, we had a bit of a spat with Jim O’Neil (arch profracker) on a local Facebook Group. Jim swore blind that the pottymouthed RTR group was...
We are quite used to sparring with the industry’s front groups. It is a rather obvious strategy for them to set up astroturf groups claiming to be organised by local residents who can then say and do things that the companies themselves might prefer not to be seen saying and...
The news reported today that hydraulic fracturing probably was responsible for the South Korean magnitude 5.5 earthquake last November will have caused a headache or two in the boardrooms at Cuadrilla, Ineos and the other fracking companies. Their mood won’t have been improved by the fact that this comes hot...
Our friends over at Backing Fracking have been in PR overdrive again. This time they are trying to do some maths but they haven’t really thought it through. Desperate to show that fracking might create some jobs, but having very little to base it on, they have had to rely...
Environment / Industry Tactics / Preston New Road / Public Opinion / Water Pollution
by Refracktion · Published September 11, 2017
In George Orwell’s 1984, the main protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth, or “Minitrue”, as an editor. He is responsible for historical revisionism; he rewrites records and alters photographs to conform to the state’s ever-changing version of history itself. In 2017 he might have got a job...
As we reported in our last post the Backing Fracking astroturf group’s new website isn’t exactly a reliable source of information. Today we read their latest blog post in which they state: You have to commend the PR boys for that “per fracking stage” don’t you. How about when you...
Well it finally happened! Industry astroturfers Backing Fracking have at long last created their own website, 2 years after collecting over £1100 for the purpose. On each page of the site they repeat the claim that “Backing Fracking is a residents collective” We imagine that Backing Fracking must subconsciously referring...
Policing / Political Issues / Preston New Road / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 25, 2017
So, today’s front page of the Times carries an article in which “residents’ group” Backing Fracking criticise Arfon Jones, the police commissioner for North Wales, for allegedly using his position to influence a decision on pulling the Welsh Police out of the mutual aid agreement with Lancashire Constabulary. In case...
Industry Tactics / Public Opinion
by Refracktion · Published July 14, 2017 · Last modified July 15, 2017
Backing Fracking and the other industry astroturf groups are clearly struggling to engage the 50% or so of the population who are undecided in fracking, so of late they’ve been doing a bit of button pushing. In the Conservative Fylde this has mostly taken the form of demonising protesters as...
...and from Pro-Frack anonymous troll Eli-Goth we received the following ringing (if illiterate) endorsement over on Drill or Drop:
...and from The Village Idiot of Little Plumpton AKA Geza Tarjanyi
"Do not believe Refracktion. John 'Obson is useless. 'e is industry"
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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