energy shale, Tag

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Not to mention the wind turbines' need for tons of steel and concrete, the devastation of the countryside, permanent loss of habitat and noise pollution...

In an article in the Guardian last year, Fiona Harvey described Sir David King's concerns over shale gas development. The great man was apparently not impressed.

David Mackay, chief scientist at DECC, and David King, Foreign Secretary's climate change adviser will give evidence to the Lords' Economic Affairs Committee on shale gas this afternoon at 3:30pm...

There's quite a lot of newspaper coverage of fracking this morning, which will no doubt be of interest to readers.

This is a bit of a turnup for the books: One [green] group in Surrey set up to encourage sustainable living has come out in favour of exploration and fracking, the process which may have to be used in future to extract...

It will be interesting to see if things turn nasty in Balcombe this weekend, so I'm going to leave this thread up for anyone who has any news to impart...

Cuadrilla commissioned Poyry to carry out an analysis on the impact of shale gas on bills. It found that European shale gas (including gas outside the UK) could moderate bills by 2-4%, compared to where they would otherwise...

In this morning's Telegraph, David Cameron has issued another call for the country to get behind shale gas.

  Given the recent protests about Fracking, I thought some cartoons on the subject might be a good idea.

Yougov has published a poll of UK public opinion for the Sunday Times, which this time round includes a number of questions about shale gas exploitation and energy policy in general...

Andrew Simms hilariously titled article is here. It is so funny I have just repeated it. He seems to be worried that we might have too much prosperity, be able to keep the lights on for longer and generally ignore mad renewable...