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Paris, Innovation and Imagination.
I’ve gone to countless energy events over the past few years, some top class professional, some in the ‘who on earth was mad enough to pay to be here’ category. Too often they descend into Powerpoint...
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COP21 and natural gas: The invisible fuel
This is a copy of a letter I arranged, Patrick Heren edited, and signed by 7 others from Texas to Moscow, that was recently submitted to the Financial Times.Rather proving our point, they chose not to...
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Back to the Barnett: Shale gas's birthplace growing still.
Way back in 2008, before most people had heard of the Marcellus shale, and before anyone except geologists had heard of the Eagle Ford and the Utica shales, the premier US shale was the Barnett Shale,...
View ArticleFrance's paradox: Government bans, imports and makes money on LNG shale all...
At the end of January during a demonstration in France against shale gas, one of the key slogans was Ni ici, ni ailleurs. Ni aujourd'hui, ni demain. Like most things, it sounds better in French, but...
View ArticleThe gas industry communication failure machine. Once too soon, now too late?
I’ve noted before how the US industry failure to separate fracking from politics endangers the shale industry worldwide. However legion the failures the UK approach has had, they have always tried to...
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France's shale and LNG Paradox
My recent piece on Frence's paradox of banning shale while importing US LNG, which is now at least 67% produced from shale, was republished at EnergyPost.eu and even at a site run by the German Green...
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France's shale conversation moves onshore
When I started pointing out the paradox of France importing shale LNG as it bans the technique itself as some sort of ecocide catastrophe, I did so in hope that pointing out the contradictions would...
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Can UK shale gas grow up and move to town?
The recent approval from North Yorkshire County Council for Third Energy’s well is neither the dawn of a new shale era nor the portent of doom local and national opponents would have us believe. Any...
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