The GWPF is one of the most important think-tanks in Britain today, because it is helping to provide the balance that has been so sorely lacking in the mainstream of our economic and environmental policy debate for much of the last decade. --Matthew Barrett, Conservative Home,
1 November 2011
Can the green lobby win the shale gas debate over environmental objections? I don’t think it can. Ten or 20 years ago it could have won when governments were willing to burn billions, but the economic climate has changed, we’re facing the biggest crisis in decades. No government in the world would give up this opportunity, not even the British government, which is very green indeed. Shale shouldn’t have any big problem and in all likelihood the government will grasp it with both hands. --Benny Peiser,
Natural Gas Europe, 25 October 2011
Chris Huhne is renowned for his uninhibited antagonism towards natural gas. At the Liberal Democrat party conference in Birmingham last week he promised to halt a new "dash for gas" because it would undermine the UK's unilateral climate targets. Of course, this development is politically and economically unsustainable. It is no surprise that a recently leaked letter by David Cameron's energy advisers described Huhne's energy plans as "unconvincing" and warned that his green obsession will hit consumers hard. David Cameron would be well advised not to allow his green minister to squander Britain's golden shale gas opportunity. –Benny Peiser,
Public Service Europe, 27 September 2011
The shale gas revolution was given a guarded welcome by Parliament [last week], with the economic and security benefits to the UK judged to outweigh environmental reservations. Energy Minster Charles Hendry gave it a guarded welcome. MPs noted that Caroline Lucas, the only Green MP, was curiously MIA. Lucas was not present for the debate. Perhaps her electric car had broken down. --Andrew Orlowski,
The Register, 7 November 2011
Encouraged by the availability of inexpensive and cleaner domestic gas, some electric utilities are replacing their coal- burning capacity with gas-fired units. Energy-intensive manufacturers of chemicals, plastics, and steel are beginning to bring home operations that they exported years ago. --Paul M. Barrett,
Bloomberg, 3 November 2011
Last week was a rough one for the White House’s “green jobs” agenda: A House panel subpoenaed Team Obama over the stunning crash of solar-power firm Solyndra, and an Energy Department watchdog hinted there’s worse to come. As for those green jobs? Global warming will burn the earth to a crisp before they ever arrive. --Editorial,
New York Post, 7 November 2011
Peak oil doom is finding it more and more difficult to get any respect among informed persons. The most recent blow to the bogey man of global peak oil collapse is an increase in evidence for an impending "peak demand" for oil globally. Ricardo Strategic Consulting has released a recent report predicting that global demand for oil will peak before 2020, and drop below 2010 levels by the year 2035. It is also likely that sometime between now and 2020, the "energy starvation mentality" of governments in the US and Europe will be overthrown by popular sentiment, as the folly of the green dieoff.orgy agenda becomes more apparent. --
Al Fin Energy, 7 November 2011
