Britain’s Tory government announced last week that “shale gas development is of national importance” and could “deliver substantial economic benefits,” which counts as intellectual and political progress. Perhaps there’s hope that Britain will finally tap this would-be economic windfall.
The Tory government will create a new regulator to oversee the three existing regulators that currently oversee fracking (the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and the Oil and Gas Authority) because there’s nothing like more government to solve the problem of too much government.
In an economy growing at the speed of stall, racking up a 0.1% expansion in the first quarter, Britain can’t afford to delay the shale revolution any longer. —Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 21 May 2018
Paris is a climate fairy tale. It has always been more about money and politics than the environment. If human action is not causing the climate to change, Paris is irrelevant. If it is, then Paris is an obstacle to actual solutions. If there is a crisis, it will be solved when someone develops a low-carbon energy source as useful and cheap as fossil fuels. A transition will then occur without government interventions and international declarations. Until then, Paris will fix nothing. It serves interests that have little to do with atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Will America’s repudiation result in its eventual demise? One can hope. –Bruce Pardy, Financial Post, 18 May 2018
Britain’s long-delayed fracking revolution was given a huge boost last night as Ministers vowed to take on “scaremongering” protestors by turbo-charging the planning process. The Government said it wants shale gas exploration to be treated as a “permitted development” by councils to speed-up the search for new reserves. Furious green campaigners said it would make it as easy to explore for shale gas as “building a conservatory”. But officials said it was critical to kick-start the expansion of fracking to reduce the UK’s reliance on gas from countries such as Russia. —The Sun, 17 May 2018
Peter Ridd has been sacked by James Cook University for speaking to The Australian and breaking a gag order to expose disciplinary action being taken against him after he criticised the quality of Great Barrier Reef science. —Graham Lloyd, The Australian, 18 May 2018
Why has the Government still not formally responded to the independent review that it commissioned into the cost of energy? Perhaps its findings are too damning. Staggeringly, the review found that the government has wasted the best part of £100billion on the decarbonization of the power sector. —The Conservative Woman, 18 May 2018
For far too long we have debated what our energy mix should look like, all the while crucially missing the most important point: the UK has become a nation that imports its energy, reducing its energy security, shunning UK job opportunities and missing out on tax revenue, as other countries reap those rewards. —City A.M., 21 May 2018
Like i have said before all those who oppose fracking and drilling for oil all those Keep it in the Ground useful idiots need to suffer the consiquinces of their rediculous ideology make them live in a grass hut with no heat in the winter and no cooling in the summer quit using all fossil fuel based products for a whole year Its time they leaned the truth they wont learn from the Greens the Fake News Network(CNN) and the New York Pravda(Times)and the democrats