Enough is enough. The phoney debate over fracking (the hydraulic fracturing mining method to extract shale gas and oil) has gone on long enough. There is simply nothing to debate. The fracking technique has been around for over 60 years
The estimate for Cuadrilla’s shale gas resource in England’s north-west Bowland Shale formation has just received another significant boost. After conducting further studies, a company geologist now puts the deposit at around 330 trillion cubic feet (tcf); an increase of
Know your enemy is a great axiom of war – and politics. Whatever we may think of Putin’s despotic rule, it is hard not to admire his ability to continually run strategic rings around Western leaders. As the West’s leaders
Coming from one of the founding fathers of the North Sea oil industry, Sir Ian Wood’s report on the importance of oil to the UK and Scottish economies has focused minds wonderfully. It has rightly injected into the debate over
What The Guardian and its writers appear to understand about the Christian Church could be written on the back of a postage stamp – with space to spare. Proof positive comes in the form of Andrew Brown’s absurd piece entitled
Plans for a huge expansion of the world’s largest windfarm, the London Array in the Thames Estuary, have been scrapped. The consortium running the project blame the abandonment of an additional 65 giant turbines on “various factors”, but especially the
Whether it is secular political liberals or the liberal-dominated hierarchies of the established churches, the compulsion to hand-out other people’s money no strings attached is a powerful one. In the case of the church, ‘cheerful’ giving and charity ought to
