Tag Archives: fossil fuels
Committee slams Treasury meddling
Monday’s report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Energy Bill didn’t pull it’s punches. There have been hundreds of lines written about the report over the last 24 hours, but here are key points, reactions and other coverage…
Will Osborne destroy the UK’s energy policy in his quest for power?
Monday’s report by the Energy and Climate Change Committee was just about as damning as it could be. However, most fascinating is the picture it paints of the ongoing conflict between DECC and the Treasury. With a marvelous sense of … Continue reading
Lord Smith enters the fracking debate
The chairman of the Environment Agency has given his support to the expansion of fracking in Britain. Lord Smith of Finsbury said he believed the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock could be done safely, despite environmental … Continue reading
UK energy is policy in chaos
This week the Government is expected to publish its new Energy Bill, which will pave the way for the much heralded (and derided) Energy Market Reform. However, it appears that UK energy policy is currently in its least consistent and … Continue reading
Fracking Hell (sorry!) – What’s comedy got to do with gas?
Sorry for the headline, but everyone else has been making puns,and I didn’t want to feel left out. So, a panel of experts have said that Britain should resume the extraction of shale gas by hydraulic fracking subject to new … Continue reading
