When will the Science Minister ask some hard questions about the global warming cabal that’s got him in their pocket?
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Another hard hitting piece from the Bolt Report!
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March 22, 2017 at 11:30PM
Brexitday meal.
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The first item on the list has got to be Brussel sprouts – as there’s bound to be a rush – because any celebrating of leaving Brussels has got to involve sprouts in some way. Next is Champagne – but … Continue reading →
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March 22, 2017 at 11:05PM
Ex-climate minister on board of THREE oil firms (and he’s also got an energy guzzling Scottish castle with 16 bathrooms)
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By Paul Homewood
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Snouts and troughs!
From the Mail:
A former climate minister who has plugged green schemes and owns a Scottish castle has three jobs with oil companies.
Ex-Tory MP Charles Hendry has joined the boards of Independent Oil and Gas and its major stakeholder London Oil and Gas, on top of his role as an adviser to international oil giant Vitol.
London Oil and Gas is trying to buy producing assets in North America, the Caspian Sea and west Africa, while Independent has assets in the North Sea and is looking to expand.
Hendry, 57, owns a 20-bedroom castle in Scotland, and is advising the Government for an international conference on reducing carbon dioxide emissions and boosting green energy.
In his time as a minister he once boasted that he wanted the Government to be the ‘greenest ever’.
Yesterday, he said: ‘I am very excited about the potential of the North Sea and I think it is in the national interest for the country to get as much oil and gas from the North Sea as we can. I am a great believer in diversity of energy.’
The former Wealden MP was energy and climate change minister between 2010 and 2012, when he backed a £120million biomass plant in Yorkshire and signed a deal to bring power from Icelandic volcanoes to Britain via undersea cables.
Since leaving office he has taken lucrative roles in the energy sector, including as the director of Atlantic Superconnection, the firm trying to build the undersea cable from Iceland.
He also became chairman of Forewind, a consortium of British and Norwegian energy firms building an offshore wind farm off Yorkshire, having overseen a major energy partnership between the UK and Norway.
Palatial: Hendry, 57, owns Blair Castle – a 20-bedroom castle in Ayrshire, Scotland which is thought to be worth around £2.5m
He has since quit both posts for the oil companies. London Oil and Gas says it is working hard to offset emissions.
It adds, on its website: ‘We are constantly looking for new, innovative ideas designed to mitigate the effect of carbon emissions and improve the lives of those affected.’
IOG chief executive Mark Routh said this week: ‘Charles joins the company at an exciting stage of our development and his deep knowledge and experience of the sector will be invaluable.’
It comes as the Government is consulting on giving tax breaks to buyers of ageing assets in the North Sea, in the hopes of keeping the basin going for longer.
In 2011 Hendry bought Blair Castle in Ayrshire, thought to be worth around £2.5million. It has three storeys, 20 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, an outdoor pool and is set in 260 acres of countryside.
London Oil and Gas declined to disclose Hendry’s salary as a director while his salary as a non-executive director of IOG is expected in the company’s annual report. Another non-executive director earned £28,000 last year.
Hendry has several other business interests, including renting out the Blair Estate he bought with wife Sallie.
It is understood he is advising the Government for an Expo in Kazakhstan this summer when more than 100 nations will discuss cutting carbon emissions.
Saving the world is nice, but business is business!!
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March 22, 2017 at 11:01PM
Nottinghamshire County Council Approves Plans for Shale Gas Drilling
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Artist’s impression of what the site at Tinker Lane could look like
Dart Energy has been given the green light by Nottinghamshire County Council to drill an exploratory for shale gas well on land off the A634 between Barnby Moor and Blyth.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a system employed to recover gas and oil from shale rock.
The company will now be allowed to explore for shale gas, although no hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is otherwise known, can be undertaken.
However, if a source of shale gas is found, it is possible that fracking could take place at the site, in Tinker Lane, in the future.
The application was approved yesterday by the county council’s planning and licensing committee, which lasted seven hours.
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March 22, 2017 at 10:55PM
