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Liz Truss to Lift Ban on Fracking

by Will Jones
16 September 2022 7:25 PM

Prime Minister Liz Truss is to lift a ban on fracking, with the first drilling licences in nearly three years expected to be issued as early as next week. The Guardian has the story – and ramps up the earthquake alarm.

The first drilling licences in nearly three years are expected to be issued as early as next week, sources said, in a move that will reignite claims of another broken 2019 Conservative manifesto pledge.

Given fears about spiralling energy bills, the new Prime Minister announced last week that she would “end the moratorium on extracting our huge reserves of shale”, which has been in force across England since November 2019.

A long-awaited report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) was promised to be published, but it has been held up owing to the Queen’s death. The report, seen by the Guardian, admits that forecasting fracking-induced earthquakes and their magnitude “remains a scientific challenge”.

It says there are still “significant existing knowledge gaps” and that problems remain with identifying potential new fracking sites that may be able to handle earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0.

Existing rules require drilling to stop if tremors of 0.5 or more are caused. But fracking companies are reportedly lobbying for that to be substantially increased.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the former Business Secretary who is now the Chancellor, asked the BGS in April to look into new techniques to help reduce the risk of earthquakes and their magnitude, and whether sites outside Lancashire could be better suited for drilling.

In its report, the BGS offers little evidence that there has been enough progress since the fracking ban to meet a 2019 manifesto promise that it would only be resumed if “the science shows categorically that it can be done safely”.

How serious though really is the earthquake worry? In the U.S., the states of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming all undertake significant fracking, but there has been no word yet of any earthquake damage.

The Government claims gas could start flowing in less than six months, but others say it would take years and is far less accessible than once thought. I guess we’ll see who’s right soon enough.

Even once it starts flowing, though, it will do little to reduce bills – unless it is joined to some prioritising of the domestic market with our energy supply.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Energy crisisFossil fuelsFrackingLiz Truss

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Killing Farming Is Killing Humanity 

leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

09a-Killing-Farming-Is-Killing-Humanity-MONOCHROME-copy
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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

“Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain”

The late George Carlin used to talk about ‘where interests converge’. That there didn’t need to be a formal conspiracy driving us towards a totalitarian future, because the people driving it went to the same university, same country club, their children went to the same schools, and so on. They didn’t need it writing down. They knew what was good for them, and they didn’t rock the boat.

This in my mind is what has happened to parliament and our MP’s. Far too many people with the same outlook on life and all things. The Labour party in government is likely to bring this to a whole new level. No longer the Union man off the steel-works shop floor, arguing with the landowners and bankers. The Commons are full of people who have went to the same Universities, read the same subject, go to the same dinner parties and gained their work experience in local councils, Think Tanks, NGO’s and charities.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

“‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team”

Disbelief, really.? Its exactly what I would have expected from something that has lost its connection with core values, and its true mission. Its very sad.

Here’s a little video of when our Navy was filled with courageous recruits.

https://youtu.be/gFeUO1R3-eg?t=161

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

“The SNP’s Covid reckoning”

Its not the language. I can overlook the language. It is the utterly narcissistic way that they treated the entire situation, and the opportunism of using it for other ends that should hang them. It was nothing more than a game that they were playing. However it was one that required the deaths of real people who were doing nothing more than being caught up in a gigantic game of ‘who’s got the biggest dick’..?

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

“Britain halts aid to UN agency after claims staff helped Hamas attacks” 

Article behind paywall.

Britain, Italy, Canada and Australia followed the United States in withdrawing financial support for the UNWRA for Palestinian refugees. [Plus Germany and Finland so far. Ireland following international law and maintaining payments pending investigations.] 

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-canada-australia-united-states-funding-unrwa-united-nations-hamas-israel/

-while 400,000+ people literally starve. Its payback for the ICJ interim decision. 

As Max Blumenthal notes:

 https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1751110691103113456

“2003: GW Bush justifies invading Iraq with testimony by Ibn al-Shaykh Al-Libi, who was tortured into confession by CIA-trained Egyptian security services.
2024: Biden [and Sunak et al] justifies cutting UN aid to Gaza with testimony by Palestinian detainees tortured into confession by Israeli security services.”

And as posted elsewhere: ‘So an allegation that 7 people from 30,000 employees derived from intelligence ( confessions) made under torture from prisoners and without any court ruling or evidence presented is now acted upon by western nations. Hypocrites to the procedures of law. As the west always says, wait for a court to prove allegations especially when its against politicians for corruption etc. All this the day after an adverse IJC finding against Israel’ [which has wanted UNWRA out of Palestine for years] How convenient.

Do Sunak and all those other soulless hegemonic puppets realise that they could eventually be done for complicity in genocide?

#Notinmyname

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

“they could eventually be done for complicity in genocide”

Quite the opposite, I think we can safely conclude they know it will never happen.

The same people just presided over the killing of swathes of their own electorate without consequence other than the odd embarrassing headline.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

Dr Mark Trozzi, professor, ER specialist & covid warrior, has his licence revoked in Canada, an egregious political decision that has nothing to do with patient care.

https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/unrepentant-cpso-revokes-dr-trozzis

In reaching its decision, the Tribunal rejected Supreme Court cases, dating from 1939, which hold that Canadians enjoy an absolute constitutional right to express minority opinions on any subject. This allowed the Tribunal to rule that the College has a right to regulate the expression of its members in the name of the public interest.
The Tribunal’s ruling also rested on the prior discipline hearing decision, where the Tribunal found that Dr. Trozzi had caused harm by spreading misinformation, even though expert witnesses for the College failed to tender evidence that Dr. Trozzi’s statements had caused harm to a patient or a member of the public.
In support of its ruling, the Tribunal also rejected a 41-page report Dr. Trozzi submitted in 2021 in which he defended himself against the College’s initial allegations, citing 29 references from mainstream sources such as Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Public Health Ontario and Statistics Canada. This was done without mentioning that the College’s main expert witness, Dr. Andrew Gardam, had admitted on cross-examination during the discipline hearing that he had never attempted to refute the Trozzi report.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

“‘Weakened’ Ukraine can’t launch offensive against Russia and must focus on defence, say US officials” 

Good idea because this (labelled ‘fake’ by Russian authorities, ring any bells?) is what it is like for Russian families:

‘The Russian government has turned its backs on soldiers and their families.
We’re being betrayed and exterminated by our own people. […] We were f*cked over and you’ll be f*cked over. All this time, all they showed us was lazy stability, reliability, and safety. We remember how the president promised that reservists wouldn’t be called up, that only professional volunteers would fight in the special military operation. And then they sent our loved ones to Ukraine. The promises proved empty. Many will never return. Mobilization turned out to be a terrible mistake. We were punished for our law-abidingness. Behind the smokescreen of stability, our men pay with blood, and we pay with our health and tears.

The president has declared 2024 to be the Year of the Family. It’s ironic, given that wives are crying without their husbands, children are growing up without fathers, and many have already become orphans. Meanwhile, a satanist cannibal who re-offended after his first prison sentence will be released again in six months, having atoned for his serial murders by fighting in the special military operation. Our president does have a sense of humor after all! Apparently, our motherland is being liberated for the very best of society: killers, drunks, migrants, and outrageously wealthy officials and their children (speaking of whom, why aren’t they in the trenches?).’

The Way Home December 2023

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

“The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda” 

Article behind a paywall but anyway – was under the impression that the whole right to self defence thing wasn’t part of international law for an occupying force which Isreal is identified as being with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, Golan Heights and the southern part of Lebanon. This has been discussed many times by numerous geopolitical experts over the years and particularly in the last few months. It appears to be a particularly West-centric viewpoint which ignores both existing law and the overwhelming view of world opinion, especially the Global South. Don’t exactly know what the complaint is anyway as Israel and it’s supporters – as expected – have completely ignored any and all measures the ICJ have stipulated. If you’re above the law, why complain about it?

What’s probably getting them rattled isn’t the ICJ interim decision per se, but the consequences of it on the global ‘street’: As Dr Razmy Baroud, editor in chief of the Palestine Chronicle has noted in a very thoughtful piece:

We should no longer submit to the direct accusation that boycotting Israel is an act of antisemitism. To the contrary, boycotting Israel now has some serious and legitimate legal basis in international law. 

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/as-we-celebrate-gaza-is-disappointed-with-icj-ruling-this-is-why/

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Given the following views:

Legally, the Israelis are occupiers.

Ideologically, all the non-Jews are occupiers.

Which one is consistent with the response of the Israeli regime?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

International law?

That’s just fiction. Only when it suits.

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago

Morning All

I was looking for some commentary to send to my brother on Chemtrails – he had never heard the term. I thought the DS is bound to have written about this, given its nefarious anti-democratic nature and related denials by the MSM, but nothing at all popped up on entering “chemtrails” into the Search Box.

DS Team – not sure if you agree that this would be a good topic for a researched article.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  MichaelM

Morning Michael,
A good place to start is Dane Wigington’s website: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
He has been following this for a very long time. If you search for geoengineering online you’ll come across various articles purporting to be about ‘combating climate change’ or similar. Anyway, hope this helps.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

👍

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Thanks Aethelred – that looks ideal.

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DS99
DS99
1 year ago
Reply to  MichaelM

Chemtrails seems to be one of those baffling so-called “conspiracy theories” because the evidence is pretty clear – I’ve seen with my own eyes on numerous occasions one or two planes creating a latticework of clouds in beautiful clear skies. I don’t live anywhere near a flight path and most days you wouldn’t see any planes in the sky at all. And yet, there seems to be a resistance to looking at it from sceptical sites. For example, the word “chemtrail” doesn’t appear on the Conservative Woman website when you put it in the search bar. I doubt the DS will cover it but thanks for raising what I consider to be an important issue.

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  DS99

Thanks for that insight, DS99.

“Curiouser and curiouser” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell, from 1984.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  MichaelM

Morning Mike I also have become interested in Chemtrails which I previously dismissed , due to having too much other stuff to digest ! We now live near the Welsh border & you can see criss cross patterns which are like layered waffles amongst the clouds ! Something is taking place & it won’t be for the best !!…

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Evening, Freddy – totally agree with you.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“What is the real purpose of the German nuclear phase-out, and why is the policy shrouded in so much silence and mystery?” – Eugyppius on the German Government’s fights to keep secret records related to the shutdown of the country’s last nuclear plants.

At the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, over 20 countries launched a Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy; Germany was notably missing from the 16 European signatories.

Bah! Germany could have signed that declaration. 3 times nothing is…?

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

“Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain” – Don’t blame Reform: Sunak’s party is unravelling because it succumbed to socialist delusions that were impossible to implement, says the Telegraph‘s Janet Daley.

So says the DT. The rag that gleefully supported one of the biggest socialist coups in history in 2020. Too little too late. The ship has sailed.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Electric car acceleration ‘makes crashes more likely’: The other side of the coin is that the other side is not aware of it, and may assume that there is enough time to nip across the gap, etc.

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