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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 enviro- nment 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
under secretary of state
minister of statesecretary
of state
Penny Mordaunt
associate
Town Planning Regulation (England)
Eric Pickles
secretary of state
under secretary of state
Planning Policy
Guidanceissues
special adviser 2012-14
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
'The Frackogram' 2015 Version 1.3.1, Paul Mobbs/Mobbs' Environmental Investigations, March 2015
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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
inter- national
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 Southampton
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
Heriot-Watt University
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
University of Cardiff
University of Birmingham
University of Exeter
(Camborne)
University of Dundee
University of Glasgow
Keele University
Royal Holloway
University of Nottingham
University of Strathclyde
University of Southampton
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
Fluvial Systems Research
Atlantic Triassic Research Project
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
University of Aberdeen
British Geological
Survey
University of Newcastle
University of Leeds
University of Cambridge
government funding
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills grant
funding
University of Durham
University of Manchester
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
University of Strathclyde
professor
University of Cardiff
professor
University of Newcastle
University of Glasgow
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
University of Birmingham
professor
professor
member
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council
chair
Energy Assets Group
chairman
gas metering & infrastructure
University of Edinburgh
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
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
Heriot-Watt University
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
University of Edinburgh
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
non-executive director
non-executive director
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
University of Manchester
senior research
fellow
UCLhonorary professor
Tyndall Centre Manchester
researcher
professor
University of Southampton
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
special adviser 2012-14
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
University of Cambridge
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
University of Cardiff
University of Durham
University of Newcastle
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Oxford
University of Manchester
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
University of Edinburgh
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
Guardian Open Letter
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 Aberdeen
University of Leeds
University of Cardiff
University of Glasgow
Imperial Coll- ege London
British Geo- logical Survey
University of Strathclyde
University of Newcastle
University of Durham
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
University of Aberdeen
Howard Armstrong
Guardian 'Open Letter' From Academics, June 2014
Shale Gas Task Force
APPG Unconventional
Oil and Gas
Heriot-Watt University
University of Durham
Imperial College London
University of Manchester
University of Oxford
University of Cardiff
Royal Holloway
University of Salford
University of Plymouth
University of Edinburgh
University of Leeds
University of Derby
University of Bristol
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
Guardian Open Letter
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
University of Southampton
Keele University
Atlantic Triassic Research Project
Fluvial Systems Research
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.
Shale Gas Task Force
Ernest Rutter
task force panel
University of Manchester
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
Imperial College London
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
University of Nottingham
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
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University of Nottingham
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US shale industry
investor
Hill and Knowlton
communications/ new secretariat
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Interrelationship between the APPG on Unconventional Gas & Oil and The Task Force on Shale Gas
Guardian Open Letter
Jun. 2014
APPG Unconventional
Oil and Gas
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Spencer Ogden Oil & Gas
Recruitment
non-executive director
Westbourne Communications
NW Energy
Task Force PR
organiser
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“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.