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Scottish Expert Panel

Report (2014)

Atlantic Partnership

APPG Unconventional

Oil and Gas

Edelman

PEDLs

Catherine Fall

Zoe Shipton

David Cameron

prime minister

deputy-chief of staff

Daniel Yergin US secretary

'great & the good' of politics & diplo macy in the USA,

UK and EU

former director

fossil fuels consultancy

Ben Moxham

Centrica

Hill & Knowlton

Policy Exchange

energy & climate advisor 2010-13

public affairs

2009-12

senior Conservatives

public affairs 2013

Riverstone

BP

Ian Cheshire

head environment 2005-7

Gas Works?

2012vice president

lead non-exec director 2010-14

chief exec. 1998-07

managing partner

2007-

investors

Shale Gas

Europe

Task Force on

Shale Gas

secretariat

FTI Consultingsecretariat

Energy in Depth IPAA43 other

exploration ventures

finance/ management

policy

lobbying

previous connections

Relationships:

Entities:people

corporate

policy group

lobby/PR group

political group

publication

oil and gas operations

the label on the line states the nature of the relationship

agencies/ regulators

Halliburton

Shell

Chevron

Statoil

Total

Dow

Weir Group

funding

HM Government

Katie Waring

associate director

GDF Suez

membership/ fundingfunding

Energy UK

Fishburn Hedges

PR/lobbyists PEDLs

& fields

PEDLs

Francis Maude

paymaster general

co-founder/ board member

Huntsworth

public relations

group

board member

Alex Morton

adviser

housing, planning & urban 2010-2013

Ed Davey

special adviser 2012-13

Vince Cable

former chief economist

Chris Nicholson

Paul Hodgson special adviser

special adviser

Centre Forum

chief executive 2012-12

associate director 2006-13

Matthew Hancock

minister of state

Office for Unconventional

Gas and Oil

Amber Rudd

Maria Allen

special adviser

Burson-Marsteller

3 Legs Resources

Polish licences

PEDLs

Celtique Energy

Polish licences

Policy & PRUnconventional Oil & Gas

public affairs manager, 2007-13

Magellan Petroleum

Newgate Communications

Third Energy

PEDLs &

fields

Simon NayyarConservative Party publicity/candidate

Oliver Letwin

cabinet secretary

minister for government

policy

Porton Group

Big Society Bank

PPS

Rathlin Energy

PEDLs

Connaught Oil & Gas owners

Weber Shandwick

Energy & Energy

Services

John Browne

chairman 2010-2015

Tamboran Resources

Irish licence

Alison Woodhouse

senior team

senior policy manager, -2013

Lynton Crosby

ongoing merger/takeover

of UK assets

Five Quarter Energy

Science Media Centre

James Wild

Michael Fallon

account director, 2009-12

former minister of state

Lucy Neville-Rolfe

PwC

non-executive director

under secretary of state

various reports on North Sea/

shale industry

auditors/financial services

National Grid

EDF

Egdon Resources

partnership

investors

Nick Boles

former director

Henry Jackson Society PfDG

Emily Dyer

researcher

signatory

academic

academic/ research institute

grant funding

Ed Vaizey

signatory/political council member


minister of statesecretary

of state

Penny Mordaunt

associate

Town Planning Regulation (England)

Eric Pickles

secretary of state


Planning Policy

Guidanceissues


PEDLs

former minister of state

Environmental Permits

issues

Chris Smith

Arup

Philip Dilley

former chairman

former chairman

chairman

consultancy

government

consultants

Coal Authority

UCG licences

Elizabeth Truss

special adviser

Consultancy & Finance

Academia/ Research

E.On

Nexen

Maersk Oil

NERC CDT Oil & Gas

Schlumberger

University of Birmingham

Royal Holloway

University of Exeter

University of Nottingham

Keele University

University of Southampton

University of Glasgow

University of Dundee

University of Newcastle

Nat. Ocean- ography Centre

University of Oxford

University of Strathclyde

University of Cardiff Gould

Research CentreReFINE project

Stephen de Souza

senior civil servant, 2000-13

R.E. division

corporate partners

core academic partners

associate academic institutes

advisory stakeholders

fundingacademic partners

Conservative Party

CTF Partners/ Crosby Textor

2015 election campaign

fossil fuels, tobacco & other

corporate PR

Susan Kramer

advisory board

minister of state

moved infrastructure bill motion to allow

any substance to be deposited underground

funding

'scientists'

OMV

Conoco Philips

UCG

KEY

sustainable gas institute

Cambridge/ Manchester institutes

Heriot-Watt/ Oxford

institutes

Sarah Hogg

Frontier Economics

non-exec. chair

KPMGEuropean

Investment Bank

expert of the board global

senior adviser

George Osborne

Danny Alexander

Priti Patel

Julia Goldsworthy

special adviser

97% owned

Barclays Natural Res.

Invest's

Buccleuch Group

CBM exploration Canonbie

Cluff Geothermal

Mark Oddy

chief commercial

officerinvestor

energy director

Dermot Roddy

professor

UCG licences

Paul Younger

Nigel Brandon

consultantprofessor

professor

Algy Cluff

UCG licences

non-exec. chair

CEO/ exec. chair

supporter

RA/RAE Shale Gas

Report (2012)

working group

expert panel

Ernest Rutter

Michael Holgate

advisory expertconsultant

Stuart Haszeldine

Richard Devies

Andrew Aplin

professor

professor

Peter Styles

professor

Mackay/Stone Shale & Climate Report (2013)

University of Hull

University of Leeds

Quentin Fisher

professor

Horizon Nuclear Power

non-exec. director

Nick Riley

Mike Stephenson

Rob Ward

G Frac Technologies

Carboniferous Ltd

Chris Green

petroleum geologist

David Mackay

Timothy Stone

author

author

director

Guardian 'Open 'Letter'

(2014)

Imperial College

Investing in

Britain’s future (2013)

orders EA to change licensing procedures

chairman

Royal Bank of Canada

(EU)Halite

Energy

gas storage in Lancashire

subsidiaries of RBC manage tar

sands investments

chair

chair

John Roberts

working group

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chairman

Hanover Communications

Bell Pottinger

Vigo Communications

senior partner

energy & climate advisor, 2013-

lead non-exec director, 2015-

strategist

Nick Cleggdeputy

PM

Liberal Demo- cratic Party

Jonny Oates

chief of staff

director of comm.

Caroline Collett PR

St. Brides Media & Finance

director

director

Westbourne Communications Lexington Communications

UCL

upstream research company

Exxon

Atlantic Triassic Research Project

University of Durham

University of Aberdeen

University of Cambridge

Fluvial Systems Research

Environment Agency

Lancashire Monitoring Project

University of Liverpool

minister of state

Barton Willmore

LLP

Pinsent Masons

LLP

RPS Group

general advice to the industry on development and legal methods to deal

with protest

University of Bristol

Loughborough University

OUGO FOI

Emails

secretary of state

under secretary of state Jeremy Heywood

facilitating regulation/deregulation

organised dinner with officials and industry figures in Lancashire

Energy Assets Group

Chris Masters

Kenneth Sorbie

Heriot-Watt University

Robert MairRichard Selley

partnership

BGS

Tony Grayling

attendeeIPPRassociate director 1999-06

chief secretary to the treasury

issuedpolicy

chancellor

treasury board

member

exchequer secretary to the treasury

Paul Deighton

Goldman Sachs

manage US shale investments

commercial secretary

to the treasury 2012-

head of climate change

CEO

orders changes

to planning procedures

BASF

Stephen Green

minister for trade 2010-12

non-exec director

James Sassoon

commercial secretary

to the treasury 2010-12

Spencer Ogden Oil & Gas

Recruitmentnon-exec director

Neil O'Brien

special adviser

director, 2008-12

SG Warburg

APPEA

australian shale gas lobbyists

Clean Coal Syngas

LLP

BCG Energy

UCG licences

Europa Oil & Gas

PEDLs &

fields

partnership

lapsed UCG

licences

lapsed UK UCG licences

international

UCG projects

Wardell Armstrong

LLP

UCG studies

UCG Engineering

Shale Energy

plc

PEDLs

Coastal Oil & Gas

UK Methane

partnership

Alkane Energy

PEDLs

PEDLs

Reach CSG

partnership

Hutton Energy

PEDLs

Aurora Energy

ResourcesPEDL

chief technical

officer

Enegi Oil plc

Irish licence

Guy Robinson

Tara Singh

UCG Associ-

ation

funding/ members

INEOS

UK Onshore

Operators Group

Dart Energy

senior policy adviser

chairman

professor

BGS Natural Environment

Research Council

Manchester modelling

centre

University of Manchester

BHP Billiton

Areva

Saudi Aramco

Tullow Oil

Woodford

I. Carbonates Research Ctr.


University of Edinburgh

funding

Petrobras

BG GroupICRC

Shale Gas Hub

HSBC

CEO 2003-06 chair 2006-10

professor professor professor professor professor

professor

director PR/media

European Commission

Robert Hull deputy sec. general European Economic & Social Committee, 2002-06 regional growth

fund bid for Five Quarter's

UK UCG projects

Coal Mine

Methane

EU regional growth fund bid

director

NW Energy

Task Force

Guardian Open Letter

funding

PR

Cuadrilla

secretariat

Institute of Directors

WWF UK

Peel Gas & Oil

IGas Energy

partnership

secretary of state

secretary of state

commercial manager

partnership

Low Carbon Contracts Co.

memo. of. understandingCluff Natural

Resources

This is not astudy about individual 'players', but of how group relationships set terms for research, discussion, and thus the nature of public debate.

“The Frackogram”March 2015

“Frackademics” throws up three key questions:

► How does the 'social licence' of funding university postsand training affect the choice/scope of research?;

► Related to the above, should public funding address“market failures” (e.g. training nurses, social workers,teachers) rather than backing £multi-billion industries?;

► Within the industrial/jobs field, should public fundingprimarily address 'sustainability' needs? (e.g., CCS, addressing resource depletion, low impact lifestyles)

University Fossil Fuel Funding Sources and the NERC 'Centre for Doctoral Training' (CDT) in Oil and Gas

NERC


Imperial College London


University of Cardiff


University of Exeter

(Camborne)

University of Dundee


Keele University

Royal Holloway




NERC CDT Oil & Gas core academic

partners

NERC CDT Oil & Gas associate academic institutes

E.On

Maersk Oil

OMV

Statoil

NERC CDT Oil & Gas corporate partners

National Oceanography

Centre



Shell Centre for Exploration Geoscience

Shell–Oxford Research

Collaboration

BP Institute

Exxon Mobil

Cuadrilla Resources

Lancashire Environmental

Monitoring University of Bristol

Loughborough Universityemissions

monitoring

University of Liverpool

UCL

Sustainable Gas Institute

ReFINE Project

University of Hullgovernment &

industry funding + commercial sources

various industry funding +

commercial sources

Durham Energy

Institutemultiple

BP International Centre for

Advanced Materials

major fossil fuel funding sources

Schlumberger

Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre

EDFCluff

Geothermal


British Geological

Survey


University of Leeds


government funding

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills grant

funding



Areva

Nexen

Tullow Oil

Saudi Aramco

BHP Billiton

Woodside

Total

UCL Shale Gas Hub

BP

Conoco Philips

Shell

Chevron

British Gas

Government funding for CDTs raises questions of:

● Why does NERC fund research for the oil and gas industry?; and

● Why is the Government paying for research for a highly profitable industry?

Consultees:

Halite Energy Group

Paul Golby

Government Chief Scientific

Adviser

Academic Involvement in Major Shale Gas Studies

Independent Expert

Scientific Panel Scottish

Government July 2014Shale gas

extraction in the UK

Royal Society/ Royal Academy of Engineering

June 2012

James Jackson

Susan Owens

Anthony Pearson

John Pethica

John Tellam

Martyn Thomas

John Woodhouse

Michael Bickle

Dougal Goodman

Robert Mair

John Roberts

Richard Selley

Hywel Thomas

Dermot Roddy

Algy Cluff

Chris Masters

Robert Gatliff

Stuart Haszeldine

Kenneth Sorbie

Finlay Stuart

Susan Waldron

James Curran

expert panel

expert panel

expert panel

expert panel

expert panel

expert panelexpert panel

working groupworking group

working group

working group

working group

working group

review panel

review panelreview panelreview panel

review panel

review panel

review panelreview panel

Cranfield University

UCL

Cambridge University

NERC

chair, ocean drilling

professor

chief exec.

visiting prof.

visiting prof.

professorprofessor


professor


professor



professor professor former lecturer

chairman

Royal Bank of Canada

chairman

underground gas storage in Lancashire management of

Canadian tar sands investments (via

subsidiaries)

Cluff Geothermal

John Beddington

commission

associate member

Scottish Government

commission

Cluff Natural

Resources

Five Quarter Energy

UCG licences

professor

chief technical officer

director

Buccleuch Group

Mark Oddy

chief commercial officer

energy director

Robert Hull

university council 2006-

director

consultant

director

non-exec. chairman

CEO/exec. chairman

funding funding

finance

CBM

exploration Cannonbie

Dart Energy

deputy secretary general European Economic & Social

Committee, 2002-06

professor

professor

Schlumberger Gould Research

Centre professor

Trinity College Dublin

professor

Prime Minister's Council for

Science & Tech.

Royal Society

vice president


professor

professor

member

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Council

chair

Energy Assets Group

chairman

gas metering & infrastructure


director energy and marine

geoscience

professor

professorScottish Uni-

versities Environ- mental Res. Ctr.professor

professor

Scottish Environment

Protection Agency

chief exec.

Consultees:

Institute of Directors

Brigantia Resources

FoE Scotland

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Reach Coal Seam Gas

Scottish Government Planning Directorate

consultees

site visit, Airth

UK's largest private landowner

links to Conservative Party

Imperial College Health Protection Agency British Geological Survey Cranfield University The Geological Society Petroleum Exploration Society Burges Salmon

Halliburton Environment Agency BP Mike Hill University of Bristol AEGIS Coal Authority

consultees

Zoe Shipton Paul Younger

Induced seismicity

paper, 2014

co- author

Launch of Bowland

Shale report, 2013

speaker/ media contact

Coal Authority

NERC CDT Oil & Gas

British Geological

Survey

Foundation for Science & Tech.

Shale Gas Hub

BP

Shell

BG Group




Schlumberger

expert panel

working group

European Commission

Dept. for Business applied (2012) for EU growth fund grant, including

Five Quarter's UK UCG projects

Government studies supporting the shale industry's development are a “closed shop”; written by a small pool of 'academics', often with ties to the industry, and without wider public or stakeholder consultation.

The Mackay-Stone shale gas climate impacts study


professor

Potential Greenhouse

Gas Emissions Associated

with Shale Gas Extraction and Use

DECC Sept. 2013

David Mackay

Tim Stone

Department for Energy and Climate Change

(DECC)

co-author

co-author

John Broderick

Jim Penman

Grant Allen

David Allen

Euan Nisbet

Alan Thomson

Craig Forrest

Nick Winser

Lisa Campbell

Kevin Anderson

Stuart Haszeldine

John Shepherd

John Loughhead

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewer

reviewerreviewer

commission chief scientific adviser, 2009-14

Horizon Nuclear Power

University of Cambridge professor

Office for Nuclear

Development

expert chair

2007-13

senior adviser 2007-13

Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board

member

Anglian Water

European Investment

Bank

KPMG Corporate Finance



expert of the board

global senior adviser 2011-13

Chris Nicholson

partner, 1993-2010

chief executive 2010-12

policy on nuclear, defence & health

Paul Hodgson

Fishburn Hedges

associate director 2006-13

Katie Waring

Edelman associate director, 2014-

PR

secretariat

Arup

global leader for thermal and nuclear energy

transaction advice director APPG

Unconventional Oil and Gas

associate membership

Royal Holloway

professor


senior research

fellow

UCLhonorary professor

Tyndall Centre Manchester

researcher

professor


professor

deputy director

National Grid executive

director

previous secretariat

UK Energy Research Centre

KPMG Global Energy

Institute

financing and lobbying for global fossil

fuels

Investments in gas and oil shale

development

developers of new nuclear plants at

Wylfa and Oldbury

Energy UK

PR/lobbyists

trade organisation lobbying for members

Shale Gas Task Force

various fossil fuel/

nuclear

Cuadrilla

Hanover Communications

PR

funding

Alison Woodhouse

senior team

consultants

Dow

Weir Group

UK Onshore

Operators Group

PR PR

PR

funding

fundingfunding

PR

Centre Forum

chief scientific adviser, 2014-

James Wild

Shell

PR


Sustainable Energy – Without

the Hot Air

author

senior policy manager

-2013

DECC special adviser, 2012-13

account director 2009-12

DECC special adviser

DECC special adviser

Government special advisers are increasingly drawn from the PR world; science advisers often have industry connections.

Today, is research made to serve a factual policy-making need, or to promote a PR agenda?

Recent reviews – not only of shale gas but of the science advice around neonicotinoid pesticides or the badger cull – find that the Government scientists are acting in a partial, more politicized manner.

Mackay & Stone's figures are arguably one quarter of the results produced when using more representative data.

fugitive emissions per well

gas production per well

emissions perunit of gas =

Source: Low High

Mackay/Stone 2 5

USGS 0.03 2.8

USDoE 1.4 1.8

Paper Paper

Stephenson et al (2011) 0.60% EPA (2011) 3.00%

O'Sullivan and Paltsev (2012) 0.60% Miller et al (2013) 3.00%

Cathles et al (2012) 0.90% Petron et al (2014) 3.00%

Burnham et al (2011) 1.30% Howarth et al. (2011) 3.30%

EPA (2013) 1.65% Petron et al (2012) 4.00%

Jiang et al (2011) 2.00% Karion et al (2013) (NOAA) 5.50%

EPA (2012) 2.30% NOAA et al (2013) 9.00%

Hultman et al. (2011) 2.80%

rejected as “outlier”

figures in billion cu. feet

The Science Media Centre and the “seeding” of shale energy articles


UK Energy Research Centre

UCL

Tyndall Centre Manchester

London School of Economics

Du Pont

EDF

National Grid

BP

BASF

Department for Energy and Climate Change

(DECC)

Department for Business,

Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Energy Solutions

ExxonMobil

Shell

Conoco

Dow Chemicals

Environment Agency

Government Office for Science

NPL

UKERC

Royal Academy of Engineering

British Geo- logical Survey

EPSRC

NERC

Royal Society

Imperial College

UCL











funding

Nick Riley (2)

Samuela Bassi

Michael Bradshaw

Jim Watson (3)

Kevin Anderson (2)

Brian Baptie (2)

David MacKay

Mike Stephenson (2)

Rob Ward

David Manning

Zoe Shipton (3)

Peter Styles (5)

Robert Mair (3)

John Roberts

Andy Furlong

Chris Green (4)

Andrew Aplin (5)

Richard Davies (3)

Stuart Haszeldine (6)

Paul Monks

Hywel Thomas

Rob Westaway

Paul Ekins

Quentin Fisher (6)

John Loughhead

Neil Hirst

Clifford Jones


Institution of Chemical Eng.

Geological So- ciety of London

University of Leicester

senior research

fellow

professor

professor

reader

9/9/13 (4)

26/1/15 (12)

16/4/12 (3)

30/10/14 (2)

28/6/12 (4)

15/9/14 (1)

10/1/12 (2)

31/10/13 (4)

27/6/13 (7)

13/12/12 (12)

17/4/12 (3)

2/11/11 (5)

events & publications

senior policy fellow

professor

professor

professor

professorprofessorprofessor

policy analyst

seismology

uncon. gassci. & tech.

groundwater science

professor

professorprofessor

professor

professor

professor

professor

G Frac Technologies

petroleum engineer

director of policy

presidentNERC CDT

ReFINE

Science Media Centre


June 2014

Telegraph

Independent

BBC News

Sky News

Eng. & Tech.

Biz. Green

SGR/CIEH

Guardian

FT

Bloomberg

Engineer

core partners

assoc. partners

Fluvial Systems


University of Leeds



Imperial Coll- ege London

British Geo- logical Survey




Keele University

numbers in brackets give the count of articles/events a particular person has Given comments for, or the number of scientists commenting for a particular

article/event

The 'science' lobby is increasingly serving a public relations function – holding specific opinions as 'fact', when often there is great uncertainty surrounding data.

Science Media Centre are a good example of this shift in emphasis – and the 'out-sourcing' of support roles from industry/PR.

professorfellow

senior lecturersenior lecturer

lecturerlecturer

professor

professorreader

visiting lecturerprofessorprofessor

assoc. prof.senior lecturer

professorsenior lecturer

professor

lecturer

professor

lecturer

senior lecturer

reader

professorlecturerlecturer

professorprofessor

professorsenior lecturer

professorlecturerlecturerlecturer

readerprofessor

professor

professorprofessor

professorprofessorprofessorprofessor

senior lecturerlecturer

professor

professor

senior lecturer

professorfellow

lecturer

Dorrik Stow


Howard Armstrong

Guardian 'Open Letter' From Academics, June 2014


APPG Unconventional

Oil and Gas







Royal Holloway

University of Salford

University of Plymouth


University of Leeds

University of Derby


Edgehill University

Teeside University

University of Kingston

Birkbeck College

University of St. Andrews

Mark Allen

Andrew Hurst

David Macdonald

Nick Schofield

David Iacopini

Adrian Hartley

Richard Selley

Howard Johnson

John Cosgrove

Gary Hampson

Joe Cartwright

Jingsheng Ma

Zeyun Jiang

Gillian Pickup

Kevin Taylor

Rufus Brunt

Kate Brodie

Jonathan Redfern

Stephen Flint

Mike Bowman

Ernest Rutter

Andrew Kerr

Agust Gudmundsson

Ghasem Nasr

G. Chimagwu Enyi

Lateef Akanji

Jamie Pringle

Ian Stimpson

Steven Rogers

Peter Styles

Tim Needham

David Waltham

Martin Whiteley

Wyn Williams

Graeme Taylor

James Griffiths

Roger Clark

Doug Angus

Quentin Fisher

Paul Glover

Ian Croudace

Ruth Robinson

Paul Grant

Charlie Bristow

Gerald Lucas

Sina Rezaei Gomari

James Verdon

Jon Blundy

Preese Hall

Review Report

Shale Gas Europe

Cuadrilla Resources

IGas

Royal Society/

RAE Shale

Review

'Frack Land' blog

NERC CDT Oil and Gas


June 2014

core academic partners

associate academic partners

National Oceanography

Centre

expert panel

exploration project

co-author

fundingco-author

senior lecturer

funding

associate members

panel member

NOC partners


Keele University



ReFINE Project

Westbourne Communications

NW Energy Task Force

organiser

associate members

Centrica

fundingPR

Behind the scenes involvement by PR companies is increasingly dominating public debate – primarily through “astroturf” groups funded by the industry concerned.

Companies such as Edelman offer specialised services in this area.


Ernest Rutter

task force panel


professor

Dow

secretariat

Edelman

Shale Gas World UK

2015

speaker

The Economist

former secretariat

Emma Duncan

signatory

task force panel

deputy editor

Nigel Brandontask force

panel


BG Group

professor sustainable

development in energy

sustainable gas institute

sponsors chair

Cuadrilla funding

funding

NERC CDT Oil and Gas

core academic partner

core academic partner

corporate partner

Sarah O’Hara

Stephen Tindale

Michael Holgate

advisory expert

advisory expert

advisory expert


associate academic partner

pro-vice chancellor/ professor of geography

Total

IGas

Centrica

GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd

EU, BP, Agip, &

others

former employee/ contractor

3 Legs Resources

Polish shale exploration

consultant

licences

Chris Smith

chairman

Labour Party/ House of Lords

former minister/ non-party member

Environment Agency

Advertising Standards Authority

chairformer chair

funding funding

funding

investor

The Weir Group

funding

funding

US/Canada shale

industry

equipment & services provider

speaker

associate member

associate member

associate member

associate member

share in Lancashire

PEDL Block

associate member

associate member associate

member

investor

Parliamentary/ Government

lobbying

facilitator

Climate Answers blog

blogger

King's College London Policy

Institute


research fellow

US shale industry

investor

Hill and Knowlton

communications/ new secretariat

associate member

Interrelationship between the APPG on Unconventional Gas & Oil and The Task Force on Shale Gas


Jun. 2014

APPG Unconventional

Oil and Gas

PR

PR

Spencer Ogden Oil & Gas

Recruitment


Westbourne Communications

NW Energy

Task Force PR

organiser

funding

PR

“The Task Force on Shale Gas aims to provide a transparent, trusted, independent and impartial platform for public scrutiny, discussion and information about shale gas exploration and production in the UK.”

Science carried out in the public interest must, by necessity, be open andtransparent, and be accountable to public criticism over methodology and data.

What is dominating the “official” discussion of unconventional oil and gas in Britain is an industry-backed agenda, utilising industry data sources and supportivefigures drawn from the industry and/or academia. The public are excluded.

There have been a number of recent 'independent' reviews of the evidence produced by our own and other governments – most recently MedAct's review of Public Health England's report.

What most agree upon is that we do not possess certainty over emissions and impacts. Therefore we should apply the precautionary principle.

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