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It would appear that I have a new admirer. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I consider myself very flattered that Professor ...

In the first "Spotlight on SMEs" post, I showcase an SME (small/medium enterprise) that has already worked with Cuadrilla and IGa...

Update 23.5.2014:  The report has now been released and is available here . The headline number is a resource of 4.4 billion barrels of oil...

An interview in the Guardian with Caroline Lucas , the UK Green Party's only MP, makes for interesting reading. She's currently awai...

In this week's news, the residents of Balcombe are looking to raise funds to install solar panels to power the village. The initial pl...

This is one I missed while away at AGU in December. Bristol's seismologists weren't the only ones doing some monitoring down at Ba...

Cuadrilla's drilling at Balcombe attracted a lot of headlines. In a previous post I described (mainly by way of lots of holiday snaps) ...

Update (1.8.2014): It seems that the Geological Society are very unhappy about Prof. Smythe claiming to be a chartered geologist. The Geol ...

I'm sure that if you're reading this blog, you're aware of the current protest ongoing in the village of Balcombe. The main impa...

On the radio again, this time Radio 4 (does this count as a promotion from 5Live?): Your browser does not support the audi...

With the protest ongoing outside Cuadrilla's drill site near Balcombe , it's somewhat inevitable that I'd end up on the radio ag...

If you follow me on twitter as well as reading my blog will know that I go by the name @TheFracDoctor . This choice of name was i...