howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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strange people, the friends of the earth - well meaning but we would still be using 16th century farming methods if they had their way.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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We have a Fracking Government and the big six ( Total etc. ) are investing billions in
UK Fracking projects.
Our District Councils are near extinction through lack of funds and government squeezing
them with every new policy introduced but with this latest financial offer from the government
will be a life saving bribery for them to be to hard to resist.
All this big money on offer will be too much for Joe Public to overcome.
Our only hope in Kent is to save our Water Supply.We must save our Aquifer from being Drilled
by what ever method.being proposed.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Fracking incentives will give councils 'contradictory roles'
Campaigners and local MP say business rates for drilling operations will undermine trust in local government decisions
Government moves to persuade councils to support fracking have been condemned as giving them "contradictory roles" and undermining trust in local government decisions, according to anti-fracking campaigners and an MP whose constituency has a site that is being explored for drilling.
The prime minister, David Cameron, announced on a visit to a site close to Gainsborough in Lincolnshire on Monday that councils would be allowed to keep 100% of business rates from fracking operations rather than 50% as before, on top of other local incentives already announced. Cameron said that Britain is "going all out for shale" as the French oil major Total announced it was taking a 40% share in the drilling operations in the Gainsborough trough.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
So you have come around to thinking that fracking is a good idea then? Glad you cleared that one up Reg. It's not as if the wind farm lobby use the same techniques in order to get useless bird slicers installed.....Oh wait!
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/06/06/acceptable-bribery-local-communities-offered-100k-a-year-forhoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the french government ban fracking so their major oil company comes over here to make up the money they can't earn there.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Fracking would foul up frogs nuclear industry Howard.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,919
pauls w infavour of fracking then
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
Dear All,
A letter has been established regarding the issue of mandatory EIAs and the EU Parliament up coming vote. I would be grateful if you would consider the contetnts and sign your names at the bottom. The link is below. Please pass on to other groups you know asap as time is of the essence here. Please try and get as many sigs today if you can. The letter has been doing the rounds but clearly has missed a few by. As it is the UK which is looking likely to be fracked the most and is certainly opposing any new regs the hardest then I do feel us groups in the UK should be supporting such an initiative. I hope you agree.
Signatories: We have now 107 signatories under the English Version, which is a very strong sign, I think.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_cCn5TQihWh_j9GX8hRrgzqzdUoNqWXxB_SfxQMPFd4/edit?pli=1
Regards,
Mike
Michael Hill
Chartered Engineer
B.Sc.(Hons.) C.Eng. MIET.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
"Thank you not to release this version except to persons susceptible to sign."
Oops
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Our government not only give huge Tax breaks but also help with the propaganda...............
Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition
Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by sharing 'lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinks
Shale gas executives and government officials collaborated in private to manage the British public's hostility to fracking, emails released under freedom of information rules reveal.
Officials shared pre-prepared statements with the industry last year before major announcements and hosted high-level dinners with "further discussion over post-dinner drinks", while the industry shared long lists of "stakeholders" to be targeted. Critics said the government was acting as an arm of the gas industry" and was guilty of cheerleading, but officials defended the discussionsaid facilitating discussions was "right and proper" as "right and proper".
This week David Cameron said the government was "going all out for shale" and announced financial incentives for councils and local communities, labelled bribes by opponents. There have been major protests against fracking at sites across the country, and a Guardian poll last summer showed the public evenly split for and against shale gas wells near them.
The emails, sent throughout 2013, are often chatty, with summer holidays discussed, and in one case the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) apologises to the UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG): "Sorry to raise your blood pressure on this subject again, no expletives please!" following a discussion of contentious policy points. In another email, UKOOG's chief executive, Ken Cronin, tells Duarte Figueira, head of Decc's office of unconventional gas and oil: "Thanks for a productive meeting (it's like being set homework)."
Decc emailed what it called "lines to take" to UKOOG before the publication of a review by Public Health England of the potential public health effects of chemical and radioactive pollutants from fracking. One such line was: "We are confident that there is robust and appropriate regulation in the UK to ensure safe operations that minimise impacts to human health."
Another email, from the big six energy company Centrica to Decc officials, warned that Lancashire county council was far from convinced about the level of regulation. Centrica, which spent £100m on a 25% share of Cuadrilla's fracking operation in the county, said: "The most common theme [of a county council meeting] was that separate onshore regulation is needed of shale, they clearly don't feel totally comfortable with the current situation/or understand how it will work."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,919
Just shows what govts will do in secret
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