Open letter: UKIP gets serious on shale, serious on UK interests
UKIP was once branded, and smeared, as the party of "Little Englanders". No more. This open letter shows that, ahead of the 2015 elections, UKIP is the most forward-looking, internationalist party that Britain has
- 27 August 2014
EU's green dithering harms industry, threatens jobs
US gas prices are now one third of the prices in the UK. The USA has embraced the shale revolution, whilst the EU has dithered and argued against it. We can't afford for this nonsense to continue
- 11 March 2014
Energy is a statist business
Right at the start of the process that ends up heating your home, the entire system is framed by who gets to pull this stuff out of the ground in the first place. And that is the preserve of the state
- 29 October 2013
Big Green, Not Big Oil, is the Enemy
Other than food, no commodity is as important to the world as energy. Yet, because of angst-ridden theoretical speculation – not empirical science – the modern green agenda has effected an intellectual disconnect
- 12 June 2013
Europe’s fracking energy mess
Political observers have rushed to characterize Europe’s volte face on shale as “rolling back its climate policy”. The reality is, however, that Brussels’s energy strategy remains as shambolic as ever
- 3 June 2013
The world is not running out of oil - but Europe is
Petroleum geologist Wallace Pratt said, "Oil is found in the minds of men". He was referring to the theory of making discoveries. In the case of Eurocrats, however, it’s more of a practical observation
- 8 May 2013
The coming Arab Winter
While the extent of the fracking-induced geopolitical tremors are still to be felt, the shaking up of the Middle East's tyrannical oil policies is moving the regional tectonic plates as politics never could
- 1 May 2013
OPEC fracked
The days when OPEC could hold the West to political ransom are gone
- 24 April 2013
Fracking: No great shakes says definitive British study
Court cases and studies have shown time and again that fears over earth tremors and threats to drinking water acquifers have no basis in fracking facts
- 12 April 2013
UK steals vital lead on Europe in shale gas stakes
If the US gas revolution hasn't already proved shale is a no-brainer, George Osborne's green-lighting of the UK version is about to confirm it
- 25 March 2013
Green lobby isolated as shale kicks on
If reports are to be believed, the upcoming British Geological Survey’s official assessment of UK shale reserves, due next month, will be “increased dramatically”
- 12 February 2013
US set to become world's largest oil producer by 2020
Could the US' move towards energy independence and supremacy throw a spanner in the works for some of the world's most despotic regimes?
- 14 November 2012
Fracking goes to Hollywood
You can guarantee that when Hollywood signs up to any liberal-left cause celebre, the first casualty will be the truth
- 22 October 2012
US Shale Gas Seismic Success Shakes Kremlin
US shale gas boom could prove fatal to Russia's gas giant, Gazprom
- 9 October 2012
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