Frack-Land

The recent article “ UK failing to learn U.S. lessons on fracking waste water ” by O’Donnell, Gilfillan and Haszeldine (ODGH hereafter) is...

A number of PhD positions are now available to study applied geophysics, working jointly between myself (and colleagues) at Bristol Univers...

The Task Force on Shale Gas has released its latest report, this time covering issues of climate change. It's available here , and comm...

The political news at present is saturated with the popcorn-fest that is the Labour leadership contest. In a recent post I criticised Andy ...

The best possible words in the life of an academic are undoubtably "paper accepted". Since I've recently had a paper accept...

A few months ago I didn't discuss a report by the charity Medact on the public health implications of shale gas - it simply wasn't...

The Royal Society of Edinburgh have released a new report into Scotland's future gas use and supply today. It outlines the importanc...

If I were to write a blog post every time someone got things wrong about shale gas, I'd have little time for anything else. However, wh...

"A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still getting it's boots on". While the origins of this quote a re...

To all my geological readers: Happy Geologists Day . Geologists Day was created in the USSR to honour Soviet geologists for their role in...