Tag: Health and Safety Executive

A fracking week in Westminster (10-14th February)

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 21, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

21st February 2014 Transcripts of last week’s parliamentary questions on: On-the-ground inspections of drilling rigs by the Environment Agency and Health and Safety Executive Cost to the country of tax breaks for shale gas companies Cost of policing anti fracking protests Financial and economic benefits of fracking Liabilities […]

What is high volume hydraulic fracturing? That depends on who you ask (if they know, of course)

By Ruth Hayhurst on January 27, 2014 • ( 4 Comments )

Yesterday, Peter Lilley MP, a member of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee told Channel 4 News that 200 wells had been fracked in the UK. Vanessa Vine, of Britain and Ireland Frack Free, told the programme that an email to her from the Department […]