Benny Peiser's Global Warming Policy Foundation Reports
The Greens Are Cracking Up Over Fracking In The UK
Greens’ First Scottish MP Backs Fracking ‘If It Proves Safe’ - A high-profile
Scottish environmental campaigner has given his backing to fracking as long as
safeguards are in place and key conditions are met. In a significant
intervention that will help to undermine opposition to the energy source, Robin
Harper, the first Green MSP and now the chairman of a major environmental
trust, said that he would be prepared to give his cautious backing if it could
be proved that it was an improvement on the burning of coal and oil. His
comments will be a major setback for anti-fracking campaigners, who have argued
that anything other than a complete ban would damage the environment. Mr
Harper’s powerful green credentials mean that they will not be able to dismiss
his views easily. --Hamish Macdonell, The Times, 10 September 2015
My Take –“If it proves safe” is a Precautionary
Principle cop out! So let’s understand this clearly- there’s no conversion on
his part except for one thing – he’s a politician and he can see the "Mene
Mene Tekel Parsin" handwriting on the wall and is positioning himself to
jump off the green bandwagon. This is just the beginning. As we enter the
2020-2030 period capital as the world has known it is going to dry up. The baby
boomers are no longer in a position to fund everything and the generation after
them is too small to fund all this corrupt waste and take care of the elderly baby
boomers. In fact, they can’t even take care of the boomers. Real world
economics is going to create wisdom about the environmental movement and their
insane views. Green is going into the ash heap of history, where it belongs!
Fracking: Think Again, Green Campaigner Urges
Environmentalists - Environmentalists should keep cool heads over fracking,
says Friends of the Earth's former climate campaigner. Bryony Worthington - now
Labour shadow energy minister - says fracking will create less CO2 than compressing
gas in Qatar and shipping it to Britain. Baroness Worthington's intervention
may prove significant. She is a professional climate and energy analyst, and
one of the architects of the UK's radical Climate Change Act. "We have to
be realistic," she told BBC News. "We are going to be using gas for a
long time because of the huge role it plays for heating homes and for industry.
--Roger Harrabin, BBC News, 10 September 2015
Can the green lobby win the shale argument over
environmental objections? - I don’t think it can. 10 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 shale opportunity, not even the British
government, which is very green indeed. I don’t think they have a leg to stand
on when it comes to shale. People will realize that this energy is far less
impacting on environments than most other forms of energy. –Benny Peiser, Natural Gas Europe, 25 October 2011
Anti-Fracking Protesters To Be Labelled ‘Extremists’ Under New
Counter-Terrorism Strategy - Anti-fracking protesters could be viewed as
potential extremists under the government’s new counter-terrorism strategy,
police have told teachers. The bizarre advice was offered during a training
session as part of the Prevent strategy, which aims to stop youngsters being
brainwashed by Islamic extremists. The group of 100 teachers were told that
people campaigning against fracking in their local area could be regarded as
having extreme views. They were also warned that environmental activists and
anti-capitalists could be deemed a threat, with the Green MP Caroline Lucas
given as an example. --Eleanor Hardin, Daily Mail, 5 September 2015
UK Government Continues The Fight For Shale - Despite
facing opposition on numerous fronts, the development of a regulatory regime to
promote the exploration of shale gas in the UK has continued apace following
David Cameron’s comments earlier this year that the UK was “going all out for
shale”.The UK government has reiterated the national need to develop the UK’s
shale gas resources to improve the country’s energy security and transition to
a low-carbon economy. The passing of the Act and introduction of measures to
fast-track shale gas planning applications confirm the UK government’s
commitment to the development of the UK’s indigenous shale gas resources.
Industry will certainly welcome these initiatives as developers remain keen to
accelerate the rate of progress of exploratory fracking in the UK. --Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, Enery
Legal Blog, 8 September 2015
Aguilera and Radetzki: Climate Policy With Low Oil
Prices - In our forthcoming book, The Price of Oil, we argue that
although oil has experienced an extraordinary price increase over the past few
decades, a turning point has now been reached where scarcity, uncertain supply
and high prices will be replaced by abundance, undisturbed availability and
suppressed price levels in the decades to come. We note that practically all
energy forecasting organizations are predicting an expanding fossil fuel future
for decades to come, with oil continuing to play a key part in satisfying the
world’s energy needs. Moreover, the oil industry’s investment behavior exhibits
unbelief in deep climate policy within the foreseeable future. The stranded
asset phenomenon may come to apply in the main to expensive, subsidized
renewables if these attitudes prevail and become instrumental in policy
evolution. Despite the difficulties in predicting what might transpire, history
and current behavior point to no more than a superficial climate policy in the
foreseeable future, with our projected revolutions proceeding by and large
unhampered. We deem that the great ambitions of the Paris climate meeting in
December 2015 are very unlikely to be fulfilled. --Roberto F. Aguilera and
Marian Radetzki, Global Warming Policy Forum, 10 September
2015
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