Well can you believe it.Once again i wrote a post and somehow wiped it out.

Anyone who has spent time writing something knows how that feels.Especially at 4-30 in the morning.

So lets try again,excuse me for a moment while once again i kick myself around the kitchen.

Ah,that better,onwards.

So just as you think nothing else will surprise you in the Fracking business up something comes that does.

Remember back in this thread two towers appeared at the Cuadrilla Site maybe 19 feet high 6 meters or so.

Filming from up there some very interesting footage was filmed of the Fracking Site and The Road To Hell.

Well over in Yorkshire a structure was made at the Kirby Misperton Fracking Site.It appeared.

Rivalling Flamingo Land just down the road as a attraction speeches were made from it and filming began.

Close eye being kept on the Frackers.

Standing 2 meters or so high.I believe on section 6 land.So should not be disturbed if so.

But it was decided by powers that be that this had to be stopped,to much fun was being had.

So yesterday this happened,prepare yourselves.

Ian Crane explains

Yesterday at The Cuadrilla Fracking Site Lancashire was Green Monday.

Jonathan Bartley once again came To The Road To HELL and spoke outside.

So did a lady called Barbara Richardson which impressed me for sure.

Video. Tina Rothery films.

Well Climate Change.

If you have been around as long as i have you know things are changing.I have worked outside all my life.

I used to use excuses such as oh well this year the jet stream has been stuck,and many more.

Finally after a decade or so realisation kicks in.

And many of us perhaps when we have spotted things before they happen have said to our friends "I Told You So"

And have felt good.

Can you imagine saying to your friends about Climate Change when it is getting to late to act.

"I Told You So" because then it may be to late.And you would sink into gloom.

Oh well i have cut the post shorter than it was,off now to walk The Stormy Shoreline.

Bye for now.

More news soon.

Tawnyowl.

Seems Scotland are against it

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/scottish-government-says-no-fracking-135403557--business.html

as has been prev reported, they dont mind imported shale/fracked gas though...

'not in my backyard'

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14767898.What_happens_to_shale_gas_in_Scotland_/

Hello snowdragon and thanks for the link.

I have just been reading Drill Or Drops report on this news.

Scottish government bans fracking – statement

“We have a moral responsibility to tackle climate change and an economic responsibility to prepare Scotland for new low carbon opportunities.”

“In those communities that would be most affected there is no social licence for unconventional oil and gas to be taken forward at this time.

 

“And the research we have conducted does not provide a strong enough basis from which to adequately address those communities’ concerns.”

Mr Wheelhouse said 60,535 people had responded to the Scottish Government consultation. More than 99% of them had opposed fracking.

More on the link.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/03/breaking-scottish-government-bans-fracking-statement/

So why do the Conservatives insist on Fracking happening in England.

You have to ask yourself this question.

Whether the answers come back right or wrong time will tell.

2 million on policing in Lancashire at one Site.And growing.

Kirby Misperton Yorkshire police costs mounting.

The video two posts back showing a Ladder Platform called in from the Fire Service to remove a protector on a seven foot wooden platform cost a fortune i bet.In Yorkshire.

And you can also bet the Firemen were none to happy.They would not use the platform,the police had to.

So what do you come down to after considering everything. Renewables are breaking records

UK Beats Own Renewable Energy Record For The Second Time This Year

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/uk-beats-own-renewable-energy-record-for-the-second-time-this-year/

Interesting blog.

And interesting thoughts from Jacob Rees Mogg MP.

Do you remember,some of us will as he filbustered through a bill that would have saved people being ripped off by the payday loan companies.

He talked that much even going back to biblical times that time ran out on a vote that would have helped millions of people.On purpose.

The legal loan sharks were defeated in the end but it took even more time to achieve.

I am getting a little roused again so a few more comments then i am off.

First of all the link to the blog.A few snippets.

It has never been more important for Conservative moderates to challenge climate reckless arguments that would undermine the UK's international standing and competitiveness

That the Conservatives have over the past seven years been able to oversee a trebling in renewables capacity, a toppling of clean energy records, a surge in green jobs, the demise of coal power, and historically steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions while still leaving the electorate with the impression they are "weak" on climate change is a truly staggering achievement. To be on the wrong side of the economic and technological transition that will define this century is one thing, to let people think you are on the wrong side of it while actively trying to nurture its progress is simply extraordinary.

https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/blog-post/3018514/im-sorry-but-we-have-to-talk-about-conservative-climate-sceptics

So what links do the powerful ones have to the Frackers that is seems to be carry on boys sod the risk and who cares what the people think.

Well for those that like to delve and have a little time unravel this web.Back in 2013.

Hit a few links and have a look around.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WITHIN GOVERNMENT

http://www.dragonfly1.plus.com/Outlaw-Internal-Lobbying.html

So will it all come crashing down soon.Will the Frackers be defeated.You would think so.

But many will lose millions.

Can you really imagine Fracking spreading through England like a virus.

And all that goes with it.Surely not.

People have been bruised,knocked around standing against the Frackers and i have seen it.

I do not want this coming to a place near you,maybe you do.If it does the disruption,the danger it will bring is like nothing i have seen before.

Calming down a touch now,i cannot be bothered to look at Cuadrillas website anymore for jobs perhaps you will.There is a place where jobs are advertised.See how many there are.

Then check out the jobs in Renewables around the world for trainees and engineers who may at this time be working in The Fracking Industry.

Get out before it is to late.

It surely is going to come tumbling down soon.

Well this is my view of things and i respect your view.

To the Conservatives i would say come on over from the dark side beg forgiveness it is never to late.

Democracy is very important and is not to be trampled into the ground.

People do not forget.

Ah thats better,rant over,now it is your turn.Whatever your view bring it on.

Bye for now.

Tawnyowl.

Slinging mud: inside (and outside) the UK's biggest fracking site

As

horizontal drilling

Mike Hill, sitting in his living room a few miles from a fracking site outside Blackpool, is brandishing a government letter brushing aside his concerns about the industry. “You, Theresa May, overruled democracy to force fracking on the residents of Fylde,” he says, referring to his own letter to the prime minister, in which he urges her to heed experts’ calls for tighter shale gas regulations.

“There’s a bit of momentum,” said Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive, referring to his firm’s progress and to imminent drilling or fracking by companies including Third Energy, Ineos and iGas. “But it’s still in the exploration phase. It’s one step at a time.”

So far, one well has been vertically drilled 1,300m deep, and the other 1,200m out of a target of 3,500m down. Both are small, around the size of a manhole cover. Later in the month, if all goes to plan, the drilling will turn horizontally, with the wells heading westwards towards Blackpool.

More on the link.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/02/lancashire-fracking-theresa-may-fylde-cuadrilla-site?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Scottish fracking ban “beggars belief” – INEOS

The Scottish Government has turned its back on jobs and manufacturing with its announcement this afternoon on banning fracking, said INEOS shale in the past few minutes.

The industry body, UK Onshore Oil and Gas, said the decision was based on “dogma not evidence or geo-political reality.”

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/03/scottish-fracking-ban-beggars-belief-ineos/

Things are heating up.Whatever side you are on for or against testing times ahead.

Politicians join protest fight at Kirby Misperton fracking site

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/15573344.Politicians_join_protest_fight_at_fracking_site/

Picture post: Police remove campaigner from tower at N Yorks fracking site

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/02/picture-post-police-remove-campaigner-from-tower-at-n-yorks-fracking-site/

Today at the Cuadrilla Fracking Site is the weekly Call For Calm March.

Ladies dressed in White will once again march The Road To Hell That Leads To The Gates To Hell and stand in silence there facing the Police and the Fracking Site.

Then songs and speeches will fill the air.

Just been thinking.Have you ever been to a Protest where top politicians stand and sit,make speeches in the middle of the road.Where police enforce corporations will with orders from high.

Where people get battered and bruised, where people live in tents a few feet from the road standing up to the powerful ones with nothing to gain but the environment and safety of future generations.And stand up and not retaliate when thrown to the floor.And get up and stand peacefully and get more of the same.

Where people offer you cake which pleases me every time i go down there.

And even soup.Where people smile and sing,read poetry support each other.

Where musicians play violins which is very haunting as the music fills the air on a calm evening.

Sometimes you just know when a cause is just and right and can do no more but join the fight.

Whether in words,support, wood standing at the roadside,throwing a few pounds for food,a pouch of tobacco perhaps,a few pounds so livestreams can continue for those who have given up so much,family life,jobs,and for some much more.

It is like a dreamworld but happening every day in Lancashire and Yorkshire and elsewhere.

Enough for now i had better go

More news soon.

Bye for now.

Just catching up on the news from Wednesday .

Cuadrilla Fracking Site Lancashire.

Ladies outside The Gates To Hell.Call for calm march.

Tina Rothery-

The beautiful people of faith who joined us at the roadside today... there's a Youtube version too as many here weren't on FB or wanted to share with their own churches. So admired all involved in this; they brought together wisdom, humanity and determination as they honoured Protectors of the earth - it was deeply moving to be a part of this gentle power♥

More linked news.This is pretty big news.And needs following up.

Catholic church to make record divestment from fossil fuels

More than 40 Catholic institutions will make largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi

More than 40 Catholic institutions are to announce the largest ever faith-based divestment from fossil fuels, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/03/catholic-church-to-make-record-divestment-from-fossil-fuels?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Ladies Call For Calm March at the Cuadrilla Fracking Site.Every Wednesday if you want to pop down,or up.

For SCOTLAND

I have always wanted to see a bagpiper down there outside the Fracking Site. Something about the pipes that makes your hair stand on end.Did not quite happen but music was beamed in.

The Fire Brigade Union it seems are none to happy with their platform being called out to the Kirby Misperton Fracking Site to provide support to the police to remove a protector from a 2 meter wooden platform.

I remember the 6 meter platforms at the Cuadrilla Site in Lancashire.

When it was decided to remove the protector from a tower.And there are specialist police protector removal teams both for high access removal and floor removal.

Simple operation,scaffolding erected alongside up-to level of top platform protector came down.

And that was nearly 18 feet high not 6 feet high.

The Fire Brigade Union’s North Yorkshire branch secretary, Steve Howley, told DrillOrDrop today:

“I voted in support of the anti-fracking resolution brought before FBU national conference and personally I believe Fracking has no place in our Country let alone North Yorkshire, I signed up to support frack free united earlier this year.

 

“In terms of the Fire service involvement I am disgusted and disappointed. Firefighters have been placed in such a position by the Police and secondly senior fire service managers by their decisions to force Firefighters to attend the site yesterday.

 

“We are clear this is not the role of the Fire Service, as we are there to render humanitarian services and save life and property, not provide law and order intervention.”

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/04/police-misused-fire-service-to-end-n-yorks-fracking-protest-fire-brigades-union/

Scaffolding firm from Whitby forced to cut a hole in their own fence after fracking protest.

THE yard of a Whitby-based scaffolding company was shut down today after an anti-fracking protestor boarded one of its HGVs.

A small group of protestors arrived at the yard of Sky Scaffolding early this morning to hold a 'pop up' protest.

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/NEWS/15575847.Scaffolding_firm_forced_to_cut_a_hole_in_their_own_fence_after_protest/

Catholic church to make record divestment from fossil fuels If this has been seen twice what is meant to be is meant to be.

More than 40 Catholic institutions will make largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi

More than 40 Catholic institutions are to announce the largest ever faith-based divestment from fossil fuels, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.

 

The sum involved has not been disclosed but the volume of divesting groups is four times higher than a previous church record, and adds to a global divestment movement, led by investors worth $5.5tn.

Better post this before i wipe it out as i sometimes do.

Some may wonder how can you spend this much time on the computer during the day.

And wonder what i am doing,just burning the shape of a reindeer onto a driftwood wood slice,what else would i be doing.

Bye for now,more news soon.

Tawnyowl

A few days away and you get behind with the news.

I will try to catch up a touch.Thank goodness for Drill or Drop.

Campaigners vow to fight fracking as IGas announces new plans for Cheshire

The shale company, IGas Energy, announced today it wanted to drill and frack a new well on the edge of the Ince marshes in Cheshire.

The company said it had begun the first stage in applying for planning permission by submitting a scoping request to Cheshire West and Chester Council.

The proposal is the first for fracking by IGas and would be the first for fracking in Cheshire.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/05/campaigners-vow-to-fight-fracking-as-igas-announces-new-plans-for-cheshire/

Cuadrilla hosts first fracking site online tour and Q&A from Preston New Road

Cuadrilla became the first UK operator this afternoon to broadcast a webcast tour and live question and answer session from a shale gas site.

The one-hour broadcast was hosted by Jim Hancock, a former political editor of BBC North West, and Eric Vaughan, Cuadrilla’s well services director.

It comprised 27 minutes of questions in three sections, interspersed with pre-recorded film of the site.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/06/picture-post-cuadrilla-hosts-first-fracking-site-online-tour-and-qa-from-preston-new-road/

Just popping over to Yorkshire.Kirby Misperton-Third energy.

Where a Tower has magically appeared.Called KMC Tower.

And is much larger than the first platform.Should get some good footage from up there.

The fire brigade said no way are we coming out we support the stance being taken.

Some coverage from the Tower.

https://www.facebook.com/eddiethornton?hc_ref=ARSeCn4UceqWTonR-bBBVMDis7iYxZUj2iLf1Xi7HtcRHnKgx-bNLiirWa3Nm3jknaI

Kirby Misperton fracking firm: ‘We have a moral responsibility to show this can work’

Both fracking bosses and protesters believe everything is about to change as crucial tests start in North Yorkshire - but for very different reasons. Chris Burn reports.

Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/kirby-misperton-fracking-firm-we-have-a-moral-responsibility-to-show-this-can-work-1-8792099

Back to the tower today live a moment ago. as a violinist plays as the police seem to be moving people away from the tower.

Another view,ground level.

More news soon.

Tawnyowl.

Live from KM Tower Yorkshire.Eddie Thornton.

Hi Snowdragon.

Thanks for the link.And there is more news related,i will get round to it soon.

Just a quick thought for my life i spend elsewhere.I suppose many know who read my threads i spend most of my working day on the Shoreline or at least a few hours each day at many strange times.During storms or calm as light arrives or at dusk. Whenever the tides suit me. Collecting,beachcombing if you like.

When no one or not many people are around.

It is a place of Beauty,scenes changing all the time.But is also or can be a place of danger you see things but do not say much.

Two of the things that i often have wondered are what would you do if you saw someone in difficulty in the sea.

You see close encounters,narrow escapes occasionally.

And the course of action.Naturally coastguard,lifebelt thrown etc,first course of action.After that you never know till the time arrives.

Second is and not for the first time what would you do if you came across a body.

Due to the strange times down there i have prepared myself for this.Or tried to.I have found a body before.

Well yesterday it happened.

A young man,i cannot say why yet ended his life in the sea,probably during the early morning tide.

As light arrived this was a tragic sight.What causes someone to be so distraught this is the way they decide to end things.

I cannot say and it happens quite often.

Always i have said nothing i come across will shock me,only 200 meters away on the same stretch that day was a huge dead sea lion as well.

A day of shocks.

But i find myself today with the impression of what i saw like a photo burned into my mind and keeps coming back.

So for now i maybe in shock or something similar,so till Friday i am writing no more at the moment about Fracking,but will return.

Bye for now Tawnyowl.

Disabled 85-year-old woman dragged across busy road by police at fracking protest

Exclusive: Anne Power accuses Lancashire police of 'utter viciousness' over incident that left her 'fuming'

A disabled 85-year-old woman was left bruised after being dragged across a busy road by three police officers during an anti-fracking

protest.

Anne Power, a Green Party member and anti-fracking campaigner, was sitting outside a fracking site near Little Plumpton,

Lancashire, when a scrum of officers lifted her from her seat.

Video of the incident, seen by The Independent, shows her being dragged across a major road by her shoulders,

with her heels scraping along the ground.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fracking-protest-85-year-old-woman-green-party-anne-power-a7995611.html

Police drag 85-year-old woman across road from fracking site – and promise to “review tactics”

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/12/police-drag-85-year-old-woman-across-road-from-fracking-site-and-promise-to-review-tactics/

The day after the Warrior Anne Power manages to walk The Road To Hell on the ladies weekly Wednesday Call For Calm March.

There are videos on you tube showing Anne at Westminster,BBC etc.

When i go down to The Gates To HELL I always try to talk to Anne.

She has a nice quiet calming voice and i often out of the corner of my eye catch Anne standing waving a walking stick

in the air.And has clear memory and recollections of past encounters across Great Britain in the fight against Fracking.

One of those people that a journalist should really interview Anne and tell a interesting life story.

Now November the 1st i believe a huge ladies event.With people joining across the world.

Listen to the video for details.

Tina Rothery video,another Protector who runs on Duracell batteries and never gives up.

Anne Power showing people Anne seems to be OK.3 Days later.

https://www.facebook.com/george.brown.10485/videos/vb.100000985908110/1603619166347598/?type=2&theater

Hearing a lock on has taken place this morning at the Cuadrilla Site.Terrible weather for these protectors.

More news later.

Video.PNR-Cuadrilla Site this morning.

https://www.facebook.com/justin.vanparys.7/videos/vb.1778845106/10204220893680724/?type=2&theater

Other news,then checkng on Yorkshire.Just catching up so much has happened.

Including lock ons in the road,Eddie Thornton the protector removed from Kirby Misperton Tower not that he wanted removing.

He was set up for the duration.

Cement bond problems at UKOG’s Broadford Bridge well – announcement to investors

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/10/cement-bond-problems-at-ukogs-broadford-bridge-well-announcement-to-investors/

More news soon.

Tawnyowl.

A new week begins.

Hearing that magically a Tower has appeared at Kirby Misperton Fracking Site Yorkshire

Also that there are people locked on on the tower.And at the gates.

And a possible pop up taking place elsewhere.

More news as dawn arrives.

The indefatigable Anti-Fracking campaigner, Tina Louise Rothery gave an excellent speech at the rally in Sheffield Saturday

I’m the 85-year-old dragged away from a fracking protest – I want you to be angry

Outstanding article by Anne Power aged 85 who had some harsh treatment from the police the other day. in the New Statesman today:

[so I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to be angry. I want you to be angry at a company like Cuadrilla, which puts profit before local concerns about the environment.

I want you to be angry at policing tactics which clamps down on the clear wishes of local people, and the right to protest.

And I want you to be angry at a government which makes nice noises about the climate with one breath, and forces fracking on communities with the next.

They might have tried to bully me away, but they’ve just made me even more determined to end fracking for good.

I’ll be there Monday. I hope to see you there too.]

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/10/i-m-85-year-old-dragged-away-fracking-protest-i-want-you-be-angry

Fracking parliamentary groups hang up their hard hats

Two of the fracking industry’s biggest cheerleaders in Westminster have ceased operating,

the latest published list of all-parliamentary groups (APPGs) reveals.

The news will be welcomed by campaigners who have long argued these groups were a conduit for fracking interests to influence MPs and peers by the backdoor.

http://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/politics/item/5976-fracking-industry-parliamentary-groups-hang-up-their-hats

More news soon.

Rusty the Rig.Find him or her on Facebook.The rig has a profile.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=128380207790738

Well today the rig may get a little more rust as a storm blows in.

Latest thoughts from Rusty

Cuadrilla have announced that they are due to start drilling horizontally due west under Blackpool and South Shore, this means detonating explosives under peoples houses and community.

It sad sad news , I will continue trying not to work but I need you all to continue fighting against fracking. The Protectors at PNR need your support, awareness in your communities need to be raised , we need to stand together and fight together. Together we are strong.

Another world is possible, fracking is stopable

Rusty went for a beer with Andy Severyn and this happened ..... and before you knew it a tune came out.

I am getting carried away a little.Of course Rusty the Rig did not go for a beer with Andy Severyn it was a chap called Refracktion. Rusty could not possibly go for a beer,could he or she.I wonder.

I do not want you thinking i have lot the plot,not yet anyway.

Rusty,OH Rusty

You are getting a little dusty.

We shall send the Nannas in.

And turn you into tin

Then put you in a bin.

Or weigh you in.

No more to sin.

Better go now i am getting carried away by men in white coats.

Looking for the latest news from Yorkshire.

Back soon,unless.

Live from KM Tower Yorkshire where a Tower has magically appeared and a lock on is happening.

If not live you have arrived a little late,but i will find more as the day progresses.

Protest update: 9-15 October 2017-From Good Old Drill Or Drop.

Police drag 85-year-old woman across road at Lancashire fracking protest;

Police require 79-year-old tea lady to move from verge outside Third Energy’s site;

Protester removed from second observation tower at Kirby Misperton;

More arrests and lock-ons.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/15/protest-update-9-15-october-2017/

What’s happening this week? 16-22 October 2017

Decision meeting on Horse Hill and Leith Hill oil drilling proposals;

Anti-fracking community strategy meeting in Lancashire;

Three-day oil and gas masterclass;

IGas drop-in event about Ince Marshes plans;

Are we going to be fracked? presentations.

Plus meetings, film screenings and fundraisers.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/15/whats-happening-this-week-16-22-october-2017/

INEOS Shale announces new chief executive

The former executive of one of the INEOS chemical companies has been appointed head of INEOS Shale, the UK’s largest holder of shale gas exploration licences.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/16/ineos-shale-announces-new-chief-executive/

Yesterday-Green Monday At the Cuadrilla Fracking Site.

Green Monday - no speakers today but a good turnout and good chance to catch up with everyone. The East Lancs. Clarion Choir is coming on Thursday and will sing for us about 11.30-12.00. Please try and get along

Tina Rothery Video.

Yorkshire yesterday.Kirby Misperton Fracking Site-Yorkshire.

Protectors surfing the storm

It has been a fantastic day for the protectors at KM8: Whilst the Phoenix Tower blocked the gates for the entire day, tonight 2 surfers are residing on top of vital fracking equipment.

Phoenix Tower, our third to be removed by the police, was erected last night. Our 2 brave protectors spent more than 24 hours preventing essential fracking equipment from accessing KM8. Their ingenious lock-on tower proved difficult for the Protestor Removal Team to tackle, and they weren’t removed until 6.30 pm this evening.

Happy Monday Lock On yesterday Kirby Misperton.

The Lorry Surfers climb a truck Knapton.

Louise Hammond explains.

News: Rotherham Council consider fracking ban.

Members of Rotherham Council are set to debate the contentious issue of fracking this week with the ruling Labour councillors hoping to pass a motion that would commit the authority to not allow any fracking activities on Council land.

The motion, put forward by Cllr. Beck and seconded by Cllr. Wilson, comes as the authority deals with its first shale gas related planning applications.

INEOS' oil and gas exploration and production business has two proposals on Greenbelt land in the Rotherham borough where it has also been carrying out seismic testing. A site at Harthill was first identified as an exploration site and a second site at Woodsetts has now been selected. Both sites have been identified as being in an area of interest to INEOS based on existing seismic data.

http://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2017/10/news-5714-rotherham-council-consider.html?m=1

More news soon.Byeeee

Tawnyowl

16th October at Kirkby Misperton Fracking site.

Account of the day by John.

Under the cover of darkness, and right under two police officers' noses, this tower, with two protectors chained together, appeared in front of the gates,

blocking all entrances and exits to vehicles. Police surrounded the tower all day until in the evening, a team of specialists arrived to remove the protectors. The police put up tarpaulin screens to try to hide what they were doing. They drilled into the tower and constructed a Heath Robinson scaffolding arrangement to attach caravan jockey wheels to the tower. Before they moved it, a police officer with bolt cutters cut through the chain linking the protectors. The two then left the tower and were arrested. Large trucks carrying equipment destined for the site were held up all day on the A64. All this took place under a foreboding red sun. The pictures are in chronological order.

If you feel strongly about fracking, and the fact that 92% of folk in Ryedale who responded to local consultation are opposed to it, why not go down to the site?

Pictures that tell the story of the day.

Interesting article by Drill or Drop.

What future for fracking?

Fracking and green growth

The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy launched by the Prime Minister (12 October 2017), had no references to shale gas or fracking in its 165 pages.

In 10 references to shale gas, the 29-page assessment said the product of fracking could “provide a valuable new source of gas” at a time when supplies from the North Sea were forecast to decline.

Shale gas and biomethane would reduce reliance on imports and contribute to economic growth, it said.

But it concluded that shale gas was not needed to guarantee secure supply. The assessment stated:

“We are secure now, and the GB gas system is well placed to continue to be secure and robust in a range of supply and demand. outcomes over the next two decades.”

Much more on the link.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/17/what-future-for-fracking/

Today at the Cuadrilla Fracking Site Lancashire is the Ladies Call For Calm March,a weekly event where ladies dressed in White march The Road To HELL To The Well.

And stand in silence and face the police and the Fracking Site.

Footage.Live at the moment. 10-40am.

https://www.facebook.com/tinalouiseuk?hc_ref=ARTLn7TEWv0d2igJFZZTtItEIFegu1fYKVgjaF-xB8UIZhc6t5mI4G1n7wqcjmsi-HA

Have to pop off now. Rushing Driftwood icicles to carve.Work time.

Bye for now.

Tawnyowl.

People are claiming a fracking company contaminated their drinking water. So Dennis Skinner just waded in.

Residents in a Derbyshire smallholding settlement have accused a fracking company of contaminating their drinking water. And thanks to a veteran Labour MP, the issue just went very public.

Immediately after PMQs on Wednesday 18 October, Labour MP for Bolsover Dennis Skinner asked Theresa May if she was:

 

aware that Ineos, the fracking company, have been accused… of creating a massive deterioration in the water supply run by Severn Trent

Skinner’s question related to an exploratory fracking site in his constituency. Since 5 October, residents of the Oxcroft Estate in Bolsover have claimed their drinking water is contaminated. And many of them blame a fracking company which is working in the area:

The Canary contacted Ineos for a statement, but no response was received at the time of publication.

Skinner bites back

But Dennis Skinner has hit back. Drill Or Drop reported that, when asked whether he’d accept Ineos’s invitation, he said:

Not in a month of Sundays. Who are they kidding? That’s not my style. I’m opposed to fracking. We live cheek-by-jowl in Britain. In America you can do fracking in some sites and not be within five miles of people. We are not a country like that.

https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/2017/10/19/people-claiming-fracking-company-contaminated-drinking-water-dennis-skinner-just-waded-video/

INEOS INJUNCTION ATTEMPTS TO ‘PRIVATISE THE LAW’ AND SHUT DOWN FRACKING PROTESTS

Back in July INEOS were granted an unprecedented national injunction against ‘persons unknown’ related to protests at eight named locations, company offices, property belonging to site landowners, routes to proposed exploration sites and companies in its supply chain. This is in effect a ‘pre-emptive injunction’ for well-sites which have not yet been licenced for fracking, and at which there have not been any protests to date. This injunction was granted in a closed ex parte hearing, at which

only INEOS gave evidence to the Judge

http://www.talkfracking.org/news/ineosinjunction/

Fracking on a small island like the UK seems to me to be a risk that cannot properly be assessed by surveyors. In the US where there is lots of open space, you can probably get away with it.

Hi unclebulgaria67,nice to hear from you.

I put a few thoughts out now and again when i do not fully understand something or something bothers me.

I remember listening to this so called Shale Gas expert once.

He may have been wise i do not know.

But he could not speak very well,some can talk for hours and make sense others get tongue tied.

I was not that keen on him really but something he said while rambling away keeps haunting me and comng back.

So best to write it down and let it go.

He said

It Is All About The Oil

Now i just write a little am no expert, i put articles out and watch protectors do the best they can to stop the menace in our midst.

Whose tentacles are trying to spread out across Great Britain with assistance of money,powerful people,connections and the use of the Police and whatever else they may see fit in time to use to fulfil their mission.

Countries are broke i believe and desperate to cash in on whatever the cost to the environment and people.

It seems to be a last dash for gas as renewables surge across the world.

How many years are left for these dinosaurs to pillage the world,some places they plan to Drill you cannot believe.

People have said not in my back yard thoughts.

I understand those thoughts but also looking around realise there is while renewable transition takes place plenty of gas available.Norway etc perhaps 20 odd years left there for starters.As in the Govt report higher up.

So why frack this small Island with so much risk as has already happened without everyone else joining the Frack rush.

I read but not fully understand the thoughts that Fracking is only viable if the price of oil is held up above so much a barrel.

Then you ask yourself as price of oil falls how do you get the price up.It seems like a game.

Unrest in the Middle East,nothing like things like that to up the price,or seems that way.

Of course as i say i do not fully understand but wonder what is going on.

Have your say wise ones who understand these things.

I had better go now,i may not be making sense and i am hearing there has been a lock on at Preston New Road at the Cuadrilla Fracking Site Lancashire and a interesting video from Yorkshire i want to listen to.

Have your say for or against and be careful out there.

Back soon.

Tawnyowl.

A couple of videos showing the lock on that took place yesterday at the Cuadrilla Fracking Site Lancashire.

Tina Rothery the fearless protector films.

Later as the lock on comes to the end.

Over to Yorkshire.Kirby Misperton

As the locals tell them loudly to Frack Off

Today marked the first 'Green Friday' trip to Kirby Misperton where the Green Party & the wider Green Movement are being mobilised to support the Protectors at the Habton Rd Fracking site.

https://greeningkirklees.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/major-own-goal-by-north-yorkshire.html

The pressure is on in Yorkshire.

Next week

Third Energy have informed the council that they plan to begin Fracking their KM8 well "on or after 26th October"

Fracking,oh dear.

How are the Yorkshire people going to react to this news.

Three eyes being kept on Kirby Misperton this coming week.

Other news.From DRILL OR DROP

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM ON FRACKING, ONSHORE OIL AND GAS AND THE REACTIONS TO IT

Updates from yesterday's protest at Kirby Misperton and launch of a compensation fund.

Protest update: 16-22 October 2017

Compensation fund

Double lock-on protest

Lorry protest in North Yorkshire layby;

Campaigners removed from third tower.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/17/protest-update-16-22-october-2017/

Everything you always wanted to know about acidising

This study was prepared for the Weald Action Group, a strategic umbrella for community groups across the Weald region.

The study is based on scientific papers, industry training manuals, promotional literature for new, patented technologies, and discussions with engineers, geologists and scientists.

It has been informally ‘peer reviewed’ and declared ‘scientifically literate’. But all comments are welcome.

Acidising or acidisation

Acidisation is one of several techniques used to release ‘tight’ oil and gas – oil and gas that trapped in the tiniest droplets within rocks and unable to flow out at commercial rates unless ‘stimulated’ by fracking and/or acidising.

https://drillordrop.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-acidising-detailed-study-by-kathryn-mcwhirter/

Reaction to approval of drilling and testing plans for Horse Hill oil site.

Councillors in Surrey approved plans this afternoon for another two wells at the Horse Hill oil exploration site near Gatwick Airport.

The county council’s planning committee also approved proposals for extended flow testing at the existing and new wells.

The vote, of eight in favour and two abstentions, came after less than 40 minutes, with no discussion from councillors.

DrillOrDrop report on the committee hearing.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/18/reaction-to-approval-of-drilling-and-testing-plans-for-horse-hill-oil-site/

More news soon.What is next week going to bring i wonder.

Tawnyowl

Page 8 for when Cuadrilla Invaded Lancashire-The Story From Then for those that like a good read.

https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?464895-Fracking-gets-go-ahead-in-UK-for-first-time-since-2011-as-North-Yorkshire-council-approves-plans/page8

Many of the early videos have vanished into another dimension.It happens,why i do not know.

Page One For When This Story Began.Where will it end and when.

https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?464895-Fracking-gets-go-ahead-in-UK-for-first-time-since-2011-as-North-Yorkshire-council-approves-plans

Up the protectors may you succeed in you quest.

We are a small Island your cause is a just one.

More news soon,going to calm down.I am going to blow a fuse and it is not yet 5am.

Tawnyowl.

Well can you believe it.A new observation tower has been claimed at Kirby Misperton Yorkshire.

At The Third Energy Fracking Site.

In the darkness they came,protectors arrived through the mists swirling across fields.

Over hills and dales they made their way like Ninjas slipping past security,like a shadow with no noise.

And Climbed the Fracking Rig,yes you read it right they,the protectors are on top of the Rig on a stormy day filming away.

Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you live from Kirby Misperton Yorkshire at the Third Energy Frack Site where only yesterday they Third Energy said they will start to Frack this week coming.Well the Protectors once again say We Said No.

I present to you live from Yorkshire

THE PROTECTORS

Campaigners occupy rig at Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton fracking site

Three opponents of Third Energy’s plans to frack at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire occupied the rig at the site last night.

The campaigners have posted short videos explaining that they had food, blankets and a tarpaulin.

More news,videos and updates as they arrive on this link from Drill Or Drop.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/21/campaigners-occupy-rig-at-third-energys-kirby-misperton-fracking-site/#more-55666

Earlier Video.

Interesting link in The Times this morning.Snippets from it.

A village with a population of 370 became the front line in the war over Britain’s energy needs yesterday, as protesters invaded the site where the first fracking operation in six years could start this week.

The fight is over a modest metal lattice tower, but the stakes are high: success in Kirby Misperton could see fracking across large areas of England.

“We are preparing to pull out all the stops on Thursday to stop the first frack.

People are prepared to put their lives at risk to stop this from happening,because they are putting our lives at risk by fracking.”

Claire Head, 44, who has a young son and daughter, says her home was engulfed in fumes from the site last Tuesday, although the company says these were harmless, caused by maintenance and had nothing to do with fracking.

“I went to hospital with breathing problems and a sore throat,” she said.

“My 11-year-old son had the day off school because he felt sick. My husband felt ill and I’m terrified.”

Third Energy has said it has been operating in a “safe, discreet and environmentally sensitive way for two decades”.

However, The Sunday Times tracked down Terry Atkinson, a former operations manager for the site who is dying from myeloma

It is understood Atkinson signed a “compromise agreement” when he left in 2008 that may have involved a payment and prevents him discussing the company.

Asked if he believed fracking was safe, he replied: “No, I do not.”

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Environment Agency (EA) has had concerns during the site’s 20-year history

Third Energy was criticised by inspectors after an “odour” in 2015 was not reported to the EA, in breach of the company’s permit, despite 74,000 cubic metres of gas being released while a leak was repaired.

The company had reported the leak to the district council

Another EA report shows that in 2003 an inspector found the company had been pumping glycol, a toxic antifreeze chemical, down a waste disposal well for about a year in breach of the site’s licence.

The company says it was later awarded a licence to dispose of the chemical and the amounts involved were minimal.

It was criticised in 1998 and 2003 for having no “recognised environmental management system” (EMS).

It should have kept proper records of its environmental safeguards.

Third Energy says it has EMS systems in place that are constantly updated.

One document revealed the leak of 100 litres of acid that was then flushed into the local watercourse.

The company said the incident was “controlled” and the situation “neutralised” and the EA had taken no enforcement action.

More on the link.

D-Day looms on the fracking front line of Kirby Misperton

Britain’s first well in six years may soon open, but as protesters invade the site,

locals fear gas leaks and toxins in the water

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d-day-looms-on-the-fracking-front-line-of-kirby-misperton-j7k3qx906

Going back a few weeks.Check out what if this carries on what may be comng to a town,village near you soon.

“This is what it looks like when fracking comes to a Yorkshire village” – workover rig delivered to Kirby Mipserton

Villagers in Kirby Misperton watched – some in tears – as a workover rig inched between cars parked on narrow streets on its way to Third Energy’s fracking site this morning.

Video recorded by Leigh Coghill, an opponent of the company’s operation, shows the large delivery lorry appearing to get stuck for a short time as it tries to turn a tight corner in the village.

https://drillordrop.com/2017/10/10/workover-rig-delivered-to-kirby-misperton-fracking-site-say-opponents/

Ah well,probably many think one sided view as always.That old owl only one way of seeing things.

People say no,democratic decision taken.

But Govt elected to represent the people say yes.Democracy Local,Nationally trashed.

Donations,PR,Lobby Groups pile on pressure.

Tory MPs when wanting to say no get whipped into line go hiding in corners afraid of their masters when votes come just as happened the other day.Universal Credit.

The link to the Times tells a few things that have happened Third Energy,how many do we not know about.

As for Cuadrilla just a few breaches,maybe worth a read.If anyone is interested that is.

CUADRILLA RESOURCES PLANNING BREACHES & TECHNICAL FAILURES-plus about 58 tremors two felt at the surface,nothing to worry about then.

http://frack-off.org.uk/cuadrilla-resources-planning-breaches-technical-failures/

As a chap said to me a while ago,you are talking to a empty room is it echoing in there.

What does it feel like to be talking to yourself.Calms me down a touch,that is all.

At the moment thinking about the Protectors stuck up the rig,one has come down i believe.

Facing the stormy conditions at the moment.

And why are they doing it,does that need answering.

Updates on the Protectors up there on the Rig in Yorkshire when i get them.

Bye for now.

Tawnyowl.