Sometimes sensible proposals get through. This will bring more tax revenue, more jobs, and less CO2.
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Sometimes sensible proposals get through. This will bring more tax revenue, more jobs, and less CO2.
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June 2, 2022
Excellent news. Now, please can Cuadrilla be given the go-ahead to prove ( or disprove) the viability of shale gas extraction
June 2, 2022
What about the Cumbrian coal mine.
June 2, 2022
Fracking suspended. The ML 2.9 earthquake is now the largest fracking-induced earthquake recorded in the UK and has resulted in the suspension of operations until the licensing regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has investigated why an earthquake of this magnitude occurred.
Such an investigation is needed because the earthquake magnitude was comparable to the âlow-likelihoodâ expected maximum magnitude. Moreover, the earthquake occurred during a period of suspended fluid injection which was taking place because of the risk mitigation strategy used for fracking-induced earthquakes in the UK. (Energy Post)
Fracked-up Tory MPs are hoping the OGA does not raise the Macroseismic Intensity Scale limit from Ml 0.5 to ML 2.0 in their Constituency.
June 2, 2022
Richter scale website says 2.9 is minor generally not felt but recorded.
Good try acorn.
June 2, 2022
Quite so, Peter. The word earthquake is misleading. But convenient to the saboteurs.
June 2, 2022
I quite agree Rose.
June 3, 2022
Peter2: “2.9 is minor generally not felt but recorded.”
We took a couple of billion tones of coal out of 18 inch to four feet thick seams in South Wales and Yorkshire over a period of two hundred years, nobody gave a damn and hardly anyone noticed the subsidence caused as a result. Certainly nobody was whinging about earthquakes.
June 3, 2022
Well said APL
June 3, 2022
ââA 0.8ML tremor, which was recorded on 26 October 2018, was likened to vibrations at the surface of one person jumping.
The 0.5ML threshold at which fracking must stop under the governmentâs traffic light system, was compared with vibrations from mixed traffic on a busy road or slightly less than that from a door slamming.ââ A BEIS study https://drillordrop.com/2018/11/13/lancashire-fracking-earth-tremor-was-like-dropping-a-bag-of-flour-on-the-floor-government-report/comment-page-1/
June 5, 2022
The independent report said it was probable that it was caused by fracking tests but largely down to an unusual geological structure which was not likely to be there in other wells.
June 2, 2022
So the decision of Jackdaw wasnât environmental it was political, using that same logic please start fracking for shale gas and reverse net-zero otherwise its just a political stunt
June 2, 2022
Yes, like the bank giving full backing for stablecoin and all loses.
June 2, 2022
Let’s hope the gas gets used to keep prices low in the UK and not sold abroad for huge profits like most of our output. The USA manages to keep their prices low through self sufficiency. Why can’t we?
I expect Boris will want to supply the EU at knock down prices. I hope I am wrong and Boris does put the UK first, just for a change!
June 2, 2022
You paint a bleak pictures which I fear maybe realityâŠ.our government could pass a law tomorrow saying that only surplus oil can be sold on the international marketsâŠbut when did any Tory government put the UK first
June 2, 2022
Indeed Glen.
June 2, 2022
Shirley M
Do hope your not holding your breath.
June 2, 2022
Shirley M :
If some of the gas does get sold to the EU, who are desperate for gas from anywhere but Russia, then it will at least help with our ÂŁ100bn/YEAR trading deficit with the EU and, if we had a ruling elite who were both smart and backed the UK rather than the EU, could be used as a lever to sort out the N.I.P., fishing and trading terms.
June 2, 2022
+1
June 2, 2022
Only if we sell them surplus gas. Exporting gas, and then importing an equal amount of gas will do nothing for our trade deficit, and probably make it worse if gas exported to the EU is cheaper than gas imported from elsewhere. Boris is bound to appease the EU wherever possible, even if it is detrimental to the UK.
June 3, 2022
We do not have a surplus of UK gas produced, but combined with imports (Norway pipe) we could store surplus over use in the Summer.
Our strategic top notch decision makers decided UK storage was not required and closed the Rough facility. IClosed and PUT BEYOND use serviceable coalmines and plant.
Same old strategy , political, anti-democratic globalist/EU control measures, the antithesis of taking back control.
June 2, 2022
I think you’ll find that “despite Brexit” we’re still signed up to the EU’s policy of energy interdependence.
June 2, 2022
Shirley. Agree. I hope they use it as a bargaining chip.
June 3, 2022
This energy will be priced according to the demands of the global market unless the Government wishes to nationalise the industry. However, raising production levels will put downward oressure on prices and it is good for British jobs, tax revenues and will consideraby reduce the level of carbon dioxide created by transport infrastructure.
Letâs get fracking!
June 2, 2022
A rare glimpse of sanity from the Eco Loons in Government.
June 2, 2022
+1 very rare indeed since Carrie arrived on the scene. Boris used to be a climate realist a few years back. Net zero is insane for the climate, the economy and politically insane too.
June 2, 2022
Donna :
The pointless, unnecessary and economy destroying Net Zero Strategy is so insane that our existing political parties – when they finally and wake up and smell the coffee – will be working hard to ensure they are not in power when the lights finally go out and millions take to the streets because there is no point in staying at home in the cold and dark.
June 2, 2022
+1
June 6, 2022
Letâs not forget that CO2 doesnât drive the climate. That global warming causes climate change. That we havenât had any warming for seven years and six months. That since the satellite era in 1979 the globe has been warming at the absolutely TERRIFYING rate of one point three degrees C in a hundred years (sarc)
June 2, 2022
Good news, has logic and common sense started to prevail at last ?
June 2, 2022
I think they’ve been following gridwatch and see that windmills are frequently generating less than 2gw.
June 2, 2022
More likely theyâre trying to preserve the dwindling Tory voterâŠmaybe theyâre starting to realise that they canât win the next election solely on the green vote
The average Tory voter doesn’t want wind-farms, renewables, net-zero or EVs…the sooner this party realises the better
June 2, 2022
No, it’s just that Quango-land regulators are taking their operating instructions, daily, from Downing Street. Likewise, the currently leaderless Met Police; who, all of a sudden, couldn’t find a party at an Ibiza beach club. Likewise, a Party-gate enquiry by any Civil Servant, can be binned / redacted on receipt by a Secretary of State, without recourse. Likewise, the OGA, all of a sudden, doesn’t see a problem with licencing the drilling of a gas field which, up till now, no Driller would touch with a five thousand meter sub seabed deep, bargepole.
June 2, 2022
Cautiously sounds like good news.
Potential for 6.5% of our total gas output ( is that a lot?đ€)
Anyway âŠa glimmer of sense.
Now, about the Cumbrian coal mineâŠ
June 2, 2022
Jackdaw is expected to yield 6 million cubic meters per day. UK current consumption is circa 210 million cubic meters per day averaged over a year. Jackdaw is an ultra high pressure and temperature gas/condensate field. 17,000 psi / 200 degree C. If drilling the four initial wells goes mammaries up; you will be picking parts of the Well Head Platform, out of your back garden.
June 2, 2022
More ridiculous fantasy from acorn.
June 3, 2022
Cheerful soul, aren’t you?
June 2, 2022
Right on cue ‘Environmental campaigners threaten legal action after Jackdaw wins final approval’ Greenpeace UK believes permit approval could be unlawful and represents a clear breach of the government’s legally binding net zero commitments. So, tell us now, before the next U-turn, could it, is it and does it ?
June 2, 2022
Therefore we need to ditch the policy of net-zero pretty dam quick
June 3, 2022
And stop Governments from signing up to treaties that compromises our sovereignty and only empowers these left wing groups.
June 4, 2022
Net zero is law. Anything the govt do with fossil fuels will be challenged in the courts and the govt will lose. Oil / gas companies will hesitate on investment (remember Cambo) and put the money elsewhere. So tax take down. jobs gone, supply chains gone. Only sales of red paint up.
June 7, 2022
Describe Net Zero for me, please. There, I knew you couldnât.
June 2, 2022
Indeed. Only because you are in trouble. This blog called for it ages ago. Maybe they will get on with Brexit.
Very poor Cabinet quality. Now Boris canât have a clear out in case they turn on him. What a mess.
June 2, 2022
There’s an Agatha Christie tale about Jackdaws.
Haven’t the faintest what this one is about.
Perhaps add a second explanatory sentence for us drooling zombies
not in the club.
June 2, 2022
Pax. Why don’t you use your initiative and Google it? After all you took the time to post on this site. You could have found out for yourself.
June 3, 2022
The Security Services understand my posts.
June 3, 2022
GCHQ knows what youâve typed before you hit send
June 3, 2022
Examples of “the club” are Order Order and Going Postal.
A small number of approved posters talking to each other.
With a couple of regular pretend. opposition type posters.
Count up the posters Fed up Southerner.
Open your eyes.
I’m just playing a game. ( on no side other than Truth)
June 3, 2022
Because FUS. I’m not the slightest interested in it.
I shall leave you in peace now.
June 4, 2022
Oh an enlightened one âŠ
June 2, 2022
Good news but let us wait and see how things pan out. If this gas and oil is just for international sale and not for the UK, then it is of no value to us.
Whatever efforts you and / or anyone else have made, Sir John I would just like to say, thank you.
June 2, 2022
Sorry.
Only AMENDMENTS to Pandemic Treaty have been blocked.
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June 2, 2022
Good grief.
Two real policemen wearing proper helmets on the beat!
Is there a small return to sanity?
Like Jackdaw field.
June 2, 2022
An actual policeman, havenât seen one of those in decades
June 3, 2022
What colour were his bootlaces?
June 2, 2022
Letâs not get excited until the outcome of the inevitable legal challenge, that this decision is contra Net zero, is known.
June 2, 2022
We need rid of Net Zero too.
June 2, 2022
+1
I think a certain famous organisation is already flexing its green muscles.
June 2, 2022
MPC :
I would not be surprised to learn that the taxpayer is funding the green legal challenge to opening the Jackdaw field just as the taxpayer is funding the legal challenge to the Governmentâs Rwanda deal.
June 2, 2022
Well the scales have fallen from their eyes.The Government should immediately communicate
to the electorate that because of the global issues re energy security the UK will proceed to frack the fields already drilled and open up our oil fields to harvest our natural reserves.
Also open up dialogue with Libya who has massive reserves but lack the financial backing.
Taking this action will change the Conservatives image .
June 2, 2022
JR
Why the need for less Co2?
Youâre a disciple of the ludicrous Net Zero scam!
Reply because those who make the decisions take CO2 into account
June 2, 2022
Lester_Cynic : Reply to Reply :
Simply pointing out the pointlessness (our CO2 emissions contribute just 1% to global man-made emissions) and/or the technical impossibility of achieving of Net Zero (certainly based on wind rather than nuclear) without either economy destroying expense or suffering constant power blackouts or both is insufficient to persuade the Marxist driven green religion followers to abandon their campaign.
The only way forward is for everyone to take the time to go and check the climate data for themselves â not take the nonsense coming from the BBC â and thus see for themselves that there is no climate emergency and the whole religion is a scam.
June 2, 2022
Reply to reply
Is there a chance that they might be wrong?
Thereâs an awful lot of evidence that they are and itâs a very costly mistake for the country when theyâre proven wrong
June 2, 2022
Thank you, Sir John, for bringing this to our knowledge..
I do hope the government provides immediate support and the best incentives, and defence against subversives and internal traitors so production is not delayed and is maximised. The output must be reserved for domestic use and reserve.
June 2, 2022
Unless the ‘need’ to reduce CO2 is paid heed to then nothing of any importance can be done. However, the long game is that unless we use fracked gas to get to a SMR dominated Grid then the whole shebang will crash. One big power cut and the government will totter, two and it will fall. Then there will be a race for any energy at all which will be dirty in CO2 terms. Even Greens need to understand that they will be blamed if the lights go out and their cause will go down the tubes.
Avoid the cuts by using gas.
I have a post at Conservative Woman/TCW called something like ‘The sensible speech on energy the PM will never make’ which goes through the process. I personally think Net Zero is unnecessary, but politically speaking that won’t wash.
June 2, 2022
Congratulations to Sir John for persisting with this. If the Conservative boat were capsized, he would not be able to exert his influence in this way.
June 3, 2022
Jackdaws entering a chimney create blockages, but pipes from a field in the right direction may heat our homes efficiently. Patients needing hospital treatment may view Nightingales differently.
Magpies in gardens may leave less offence. 20 years ago, a bloke trimming conifers found some of their remains on his ground. It looked like a wet sprig of nest, shining in the sun. In contrast it was a heavy 22ct gold necklace with a diamond, worth ÂŁ2,600 even then.
Opportunities are everywhere. Cerce Trova.
June 3, 2022
Hi John,
Hope you are well.
More tax revenue ?
We use the ÂŁ not The Euro.
The Truth is out John taxes for revenue are obsolete. The narrative and framing will no longer hold.
https://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2022/05/why-british-state-is-magic-money-tree
Will Brexit be completed soon ?
That should be the priority after the supply side inflation.
June 3, 2022
JR
What evidence do YOU have that CO2 is harmful?
Itâs a plant nutrient gas and we need more not less, you will exhale 30 tonnes of Co2 during your lifetime as will your family and every other human being so what is your justification for your ludicrous statement?
Please reveal your thinking!
reply CO 2 is needed for plant growth. I have not made a ludicrous statement
June 3, 2022
JR
Youâre arguing for a reduction in Co2!
Whilst acknowledging that Co2 is vital as a plant nutrient, you canât have it both ways
Itâs a ludicrous position to take
Reply Try reading what I write. I have always said the government and world elites believe we need to cut CO2 so any policy proposal that I want to deliver is more likely to get through if it helps do that. Producing more of our own gas and importing less does so.
June 3, 2022
SirJ that sounds a bit like co2 appeasement to me
June 3, 2022
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June 3, 2022
L_C, What evidence do YOU have that CO2 is not harmful? In the 1850s, with a CO2 concentration at 270 ppm, it seems that all vegetation was already growing nicely.
And what is your scientific evidence (ie, not BBC, nor other MSM, nor your favourite right-wing website) about what CO2 does or does not do?
In these Jubilee days where royal institutions appear to receive some plaudits from people, what are your references or qualifications to say that, for example, the Royal Society (royalsociety.org âThe Basis of Climate Changeâ) is utterly wrong?
June 3, 2022
Hefner
Typical rubbish Iâd expect from you!
June 3, 2022
Have a look at the extinction clock website
Decades of doommongering predictions that have failed to come true
June 3, 2022
I wonder how many of our MPs have seen the Extinction Clock website
June 3, 2022
I didnât think that my latest comment would make it!
June 3, 2022
So neither you nor your clown deputy can provide any sensible answer, or even properly argued rebuke. Interesting.
June 3, 2022
More nonsense from you hefner
Decent to trolldom you and acorn both.
Why so angry?
June 3, 2022
And to conclude, I found L_Câs attack on Sir John rather senseless. Does he not know that politics is âthe Art of the Possibleâ? Just maximalist (and deluded) demands rarely get a positive outcome.
June 3, 2022
But L…C didn’t actually attack Sir John.
Very odd comment from you heffy.
June 4, 2022
If you think so P2, let me remind you:
âWhat evidence do YOU have that CO2 is harmful? Reveal your thinking!
You are arguing for a reduction in CO2! It is a ludicrous position to take â
And when I asked what information and where he gets it from, I get âTypical rubbish I expect from you!â
Maybe you might agree that is not really conducive to the kind of âdecent debateâ you are keen on.
June 4, 2022
I haven’t claimed or said what you say.
Are you confusing me with someone else?
June 5, 2022
You did P2, some time in the last year in an exchange when I had told you were unable to write a primary contribution and could only write one- or two-line comments without much information, and only following on comments by NLH, bill, acorn et al, and never relevant to what Sir John had written on the day. The perfect troll in a way.
Have you already forgotten? Anyway I am not going to lose sleep to find the exact date you wrote that. I let you have this âvictoryâ on one âleftyâ. I guess it will make your day.
June 4, 2022
Net zero is law. Anything the govt do with fossil fuels will be challenged in the courts and the govt will lose. Oil / gas companies will hesitate on investment (remember Cambo) and put the money elsewhere. So tax take down. jobs gone, supply chains gone. Only sales of red paint up.
June 9, 2022
As the UKâs contribution to global CO2 is about one per cent, our unparalleled economic calamity will do nothing for global temperature in 2100. So who are we setting an example to by our virtue signalling? The Chinese? Donât forget; modern science says CO2 doesnât drive the weather. And one point three degreees warming a century is too slight to produce rxtremes