Mick Harper wrote:Nice confluence! The trouble with fracking is that because it ticks all the boxes that liberal-left intelligentsia (currently) hate ie oil multinationals, carbon burning, messing with the picturesque countryside and so on
I wonder how the poor dears will cope with this news from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)?
NERC has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with multinational oil and gas company Shell.
The partnership will enable Shell to put NERC's world-leading environmental science at the heart of responsible management of our planet, by providing access to independent, objective advice and information.
Collaborating with Shell in this way will benefit NERC in a number of ways, such as helping to identify opportunities for joint funding and postgraduate training which align with both partners' requirements.
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2014/03-shell.asp
Having spent years dismissing any results produced by sceptics as (allegedly) big oil funded and therefore untrustworthy, they are going to have to rationalise-away the fact that in future a large chunk of environmental research is going to be done in collaboration with Shell. Some might say paid for by Shell and at their bidding.
TME prediction for 2024? NERC confirms that fracking has been good for the environment.