All-Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas states that it "was formed to provide a forum for transparent, evidence based discussion around the issue of unconventional oil and gas development in the UK."[1] It was set up in February 2013.
Contents
People
Parliamentary Officers
- Chair: Dan Byles MP
- Vice-Chair: Charles Hendry MP
- Vice-Chair: Chris Pincher MP
- Vice-Chair: John Robertson MP
- Vice-Chair: Mark Menzies MP
- Vice-Chair: Nigel Mills MP
- Vice-Chair: Steve Baker MP
- Vice-Chair: Tessa Munt MP[2]
Twenty Qualifying Members
- Government Party: Dan Byles – Con | Mark Menzies – Con | Charles Hendry – Con | Tessa Munt – LD | Chris Pincher – Con |Nigel Mills – Con | Steve Baker – Con | Chris Heaton-Harris – Con | James Wharton – Con | Jack Lopresti – Con
- Main Opposition Party: John Robertson | Jim Fitzpatrick | John Spellar | Brian H. Donohoe | Albert Owen | Ian Lavery | Angela C. Smith | Thomas Docherty | Graham Stringer
- Other: Jeffrey Donaldson - DUP[3]
Benefits received by the group from outside Parliament
- Edelman (a consultancy) acts as the group’s secretariat.
Associate membership fees received:
- £1200 from Ground Gas Solutions (registered May 2013)
- £3000 from Cuadrilla
- £3000 from Ove Arup & Partners
- £3000 from Statoil
- £10,000 from INEOS (registered June 2013)
- £5000 from UK Onshore Operators Group (registered July 2013).[3]
Contact
Lobbying firm Edelman's address is give: appgunconventionaloilandgas@edelman.com.
External resources
- Energy Minister reveals more than 300 UK fracking sites given green light, ClickGreen, 15 May 2013.
- Priyanka Shrestha, MPs lobby group denies fracking funding, 23 August 2013.
Notes
- ↑ About the APPG, All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas, accessed 9 September 2013.
- ↑ Parliamentary Members, All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas, accessed 9 September 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 REGISTER OF ALL-PARTY GROUPS (As at 24 July 2013), UK Parliament.
