Can Shale Gas Solve Europe’s Energy and Climate Challenges

Thursday, January 30, 2014
6:30 PM 7:30 PM 18:30 19:30

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Policy Exchange: Free Debate,

To get a free ticket go http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/events/upcoming and register. This event has the following speakers
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Chair: Guy Newey - Head of Environment & Energy, Policy Exchange
The Lord Browne of Madingley – Chairman of Cuadrilla; Partner, Riverstone; UK Government's Lead Non-Executive Board Member Professor Dieter Helm CBE - University of Oxford; Member of the Economics Advisory Group to the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Jason Anderson - Head of European Climate and Energy Policy, WWF
Shale gas exploration has faced moratoriums in several European countries and it could face increasing environmental legislation from the European Commission.
This debate will consider how Europe’s policymakers should deal with the op- portunities and risks created by the innovation of shale gas.

The Ideas Space, Policy Exchange, 10 Storey's Gate, Westminster, SW1P 3AY

Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

In the USA, towns near fracking sites have seen cancer rates rising, water supplies running out and the poisoning of land, livestock, pets and people by hazardous air pollutants. Water that was once pristine is now so contaminated with methane that it can be set alight. Industry studies show 5-7% of all new oil and gas wells leak and ALL wells will leak eventually.

Our water supply, which comes predominantly from the chalk aquifer, would be threatened.

Property values are falling in areas near drilling sites.

Even the energy secretary says fracking WON’T REDUCE ENERGY BILLS.

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Can Shale Gas Solve Europe’s Energy and Climate Challenges

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Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

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