Davos tends to turn the hardest of heads. During the annual meetings, where businesses pay big bucks to rub shoulders with political leaders and thinkers, a contagious aura of smugness fills this Alpine valley like a fog, killing much sense
Expert has concerns over fracking future
UK’s oil, coal and gas ‘gone in five years’
The latest alarmist news from the BBC indicates that the UK will run out of oil, coal and gas within 5 years. I’m not sure where this information has come from, or what criteria they are using to evaluate
Missing the Fracking point
Lucy Pedlar at the Green Register points out that “the best definition of a sustainable practice I have come across is very simple: it is something that we can continue to do forever. We cannot continue to extract fossil fuels forever
Government drive for fracking ‘losing thousands of Tory votes’, Lord Howell warns
George Osborne’s father-in-law attacks Coalition over support for fracking, saying they are “much too optimistic” about the benefits of shale gas and attempts to “bribe and cajole” rural communities will fail The Government’s drive for fracking is losing the
Energy company abandons South Downs fracking plans
Anti-fracking campaigners have claimed victory after an energy company abandoned its plans to drill beneath their homes in the South Downs national park. Celtique Energy has told residents it will not drill horizontally under their land, though it will push ahead with
IGas acquires Dart Energy to create UK’s biggest shale gas explorer
A deal worth nearly £120m to create Britain’s biggest shale gas explorer was outlined on Friday with the acquisition of Dart Energy by rival IGas Energy, combining a portfolio covering one million acres of potential fracking land. The move comes just weeks before the
Lords committee has “casually dismissed” public concerns on health and environmental impacts of fracking says Caroline Lucas
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has called on the Government to do more to bring forward development of the UK’s shale gas and oil resource. In a report, a cross party group of Peers say they are disappointed
Fracking should be ‘urgent priority’ says Lords
A resident of Fernhurst in the South Downs has been telling the BBC his concerns about he prospect of a fracking site near his home. Martyn Knights says the drilling would have an adverse affect on the environment. The process
Marcus Adams from Frack Free Fernhurst on Daily Politics Show BBC2
Fracking was not about energy security or cutting gas prices, but making money for investors, said a campaigner against a Sussex project. Marcus Adams, a Conservative against fracking in the South Downs, claimed it could have the same political impact