The noble Lord is an enormous expert on this but is he talking about just shale gas itself or about hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies? The latter, of course, release all sorts of other resources as well, including oil, tight oil and other forms of offshore gas, which are going to be, by all current assessments and estimates, in very plentiful supply. The whole world will want to sell us this gas.
Energy Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Howell of Guildford
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 2 July 2013.
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