Peter Glover

Articles by Peter Glover

Anti-fracker case more about emotionalism than facts

Enough is enough. The phoney debate over fracking (the hydraulic fracturing mining method to extract shale gas and oil) has gone on long enough. There is simply nothing to debate. The fracking technique has been around for over 60 years

Anti-fracker case more about emotionalism than facts

North-West Shale Gas Estimate Alone Could Reignite UK Economy

The estimate for Cuadrilla’s shale gas resource in England’s north-west Bowland Shale formation has just received another significant boost. After conducting further studies, a company geologist now puts the deposit at around 330 trillion cubic feet (tcf); an increase of

North-West Shale Gas Estimate Alone Could Reignite UK Economy

Putin's Real Great Game: Energy Imperialism

Know your enemy is a great axiom of war – and politics. Whatever we may think of Putin’s despotic rule, it is hard not to admire his ability to continually run strategic rings around Western leaders. As the West’s leaders

Putin's Real Great Game: Energy Imperialism

Scottish Independence & the Oil: So what is the bottom line?

Coming from one of the founding fathers of the North Sea oil industry, Sir Ian Wood’s report on the importance of oil to the UK and Scottish economies has focused minds wonderfully. It has rightly injected into the debate over

Scottish Independence & the Oil: So what is the bottom line?

Fifth Mega Windfarm Project Scrapped in Just Three Months

Plans for a huge expansion of the world’s largest windfarm, the London Array in the Thames Estuary, have been scrapped. The consortium running the project blame the abandonment of an additional 65 giant turbines on “various factors”, but especially the

Fifth Mega Windfarm Project Scrapped in Just Three Months

Catholic Prelate 'Naive and Unrealistic' on Welfare Reform

Whether it is secular political liberals or the liberal-dominated hierarchies of the established churches, the compulsion to hand-out other people’s money no strings attached is a powerful one.  In the case of the church, ‘cheerful’ giving and charity ought to

Catholic Prelate 'Naive and Unrealistic' on Welfare Reform