In February 2017 Shell lodged plans to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) to undertake the decommissioning of offshore petroleum installations in the Brent Field, located in the North Sea, north east of the Shetland Islands. The Brent field is an iconic field, having commenced production in…
Today some of us will go to the movies. A few of us will see the new action thriller called Deepwater Horizon. The movie is the ultimate action thriller, starring Mark Wahlberg as the action hero. However it is no Hollywood tale; rather it is a real-life story, and one…
The last few years has seen the British public turn its attention to the alleged evils of shale gas extraction in the countryside. Community concerns include the contamination of ground water, the impact of the activity on the local environment, inability of shale gas extraction and agriculture to coexist, and…
