Tony Raynor
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Tony Raynor is the managing director of the business telecommunications firm Abbey Telecom, and is a non-executive director of the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce. [1]
Raynor is a member of both the pro-shale business group Lancashire for Shale, which is affiliated with fracking firm Cuadrilla. [2] He was also previously on the North West Energy Task Force, [3] which was set up by Cuadrilla's former lobbyists Westbourne Communications as a grassroots 'astroturf' group to push community support for fracking in the region.
Raynor has spoken strongly in favour of fracking, saying in 2015:
- 'Like most people, I was ambivalent to shale gas, but the tremors made me want to find out more. Now I'm in favour.' [4]
He condemned protests in January 2017 in Lancashire against the construction of Cuadrilla's fracking site. [5]
Notes
- ↑ Tony Raynor, 'LinkedIn, accessed 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Our Steering Group, Lancashire For Shale, accessed 24 January 2017.
- ↑ SME panel, North West Energy Task Force, accessed 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Mike McCarthy, Protesters rally against fracking proposals, Sky News, 28 January 2015, accessed 24 January 2017.
- ↑ Warning over four-hour road closure after anti-fracking protest, The Gazette, 12 January 2017, accessed 24 January 2017.
