Fracking Could Begin In London After Shale Discovery Claim

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An energy company today claimed to have identified natural gas “worth millions” under an industrial estate in London, raising the prospect of the capital’s first fracking operation.

London Local Energy believes there are oil and gas deposits below Artesian Close Industrial Estate in Willesden.

It now wants a Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence from regulator the Oil and Gas Authority to drill underground.

LLE chief executive Nick Grealy and four geologists came up with the theory that oil and gas are at the location after researching the discovery of oil at Stonebridge Park in 1912.

The company believes this deposit, 1,700ft down, could be more effectively explored and extracted with modern equipment — and could potentially meet 12 per cent of London’s energy needs and save 1.7 million tonnes in carbon dioxide emissions. Mr Grealy, 63, today urged the OGA to open up another round of PEDL bids. More than 100 licences have been issued but at present there is no date for a new round of bids.

The company would need further licences to extract any natural gas through hydraulic fracture, or fracking. This involves drilling deep wells into shale rock and using chemicals and water to extract gas at high pressure.

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July 11, 2017 at 06:49AM

Plummeting July 11 Temperatures In The US

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Prior to 1940, July 11 was a very hot day in the US, but July 11 temperatures have plummeted over the last 80 years.

On July 11, 1936 most of the eastern US was over 100 degrees, and 110 degree temperatures were recorded in West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas.

Compare vs. the official NOAA hottest year ever of 2016, which had very little hot weather outside the desert southwest.

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July 11, 2017 at 06:32AM

Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denier

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On even days climate alarmists accuse me of being a big oil stooge, taking vast sums of money from big oil – and on odd days they claim the exact opposite.

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Just one more example of how climate alarmists (and progressives in general) are incapable of thinking rationally.

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July 11, 2017 at 06:02AM

Roger Pielke Jr.: Climate Politics as Manichean Paranoia

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Talk by Prof Roger Pielke Jr., University of Colorado

London, 55 Tufton Street, SW1P 3QL

20 July 2017 ** 6.30 – 8.30pm

Roger Pielke Jr.

The decision by US President Donald Trump to remove the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change was met with both derision and applause. Such is climate politics in the United States in the 21st century. This talk focuses on climate politics as “Manichean paranoia,” a term used by the late US statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski to describe an worldview in which your opponent is considered to be malign and willfully ignorant, whereas your own side is noble and uniquely enlightened. While the two sides of the contemporary US climate debate disagree on many things, they are firmly united in their Manichean paranoia. I will describe this pathological approach to climate politics and why it matters. There are alternatives, and I’ll recommend five specific actions to improve political debate over climate. Changing climate politics won’t be easy and isn’t possible without a demand for change. The shared commitment to partisan battle between otherwise dueling camps of the climate debate is deeply held, and the siren calls to join the ranks on one side or the other is difficult to resist. However, rethinking climate politics should matter — not just for those who care about climate policy, but more generally for achieving the broadly shared goals of economic growth and the sustainability of liberal democracy.

Roger Pielke Jr.

Roger Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001. He founded the university’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research in 2002. He currently is the director of the Sports Governance Center within the Department of Athletics. Since the early 1990s, Roger’s research has focused on various topics at the intersection of science, innovation and politics . Roger holds degrees in mathematics, public policy and political science, all from the University of Colorado. He has been active in the climate debate for more than 2 decades, and has
the scars to prove it. Before joining the faculty of the University of Colorado, from 1993-2001 Roger was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is also author, co-author or co-editor of hundreds of articles and seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell you About Global Warming (2010, Basic Books) and The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change (2014, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes). His most recent book is The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports (Roaring Forties Press, 2016).

This event is by invitation only. Please contact harry.wilkinson@thegwpf.org for further information.

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July 11, 2017 at 03:48AM