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{{‪Template: Fracking badge‬}}'''Jim Ratcliffe''' is the founding chairman and main shareholder of the petrochemical giant [[Ineos Group]].  He is one of the UK's 25 richest people, with a net worth of £5.75 billion in 2017 according to Business Insider UK.<ref> [http://uk.businessinsider.com/sunday-times-rich-list-2017-richest-people-uk-britain-2017-4?r=US&IR=T/#25-joe-lewis-1 These are the 25 richest people in Britain], Business Insider UK, 7 May 2017, 8:40 AM </ref>
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{{‪Template: Fracking badge‬}}'''Jim Ratcliffe''' is the founding chairman and main shareholder of the petrochemical giant [[Ineos Group]].  In 2018 he was ranked as Britain's wealthiest person on the ''Sunday Times'' Rich List.  His fortune was calculated to have grown by an incredible £15billion on the previous year, rising to £21billion, driven by a huge increase in the value of Ineos.  <ref>Rupert Neate, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/13/fracking-mogul-jim-ratcliffe-uk-richest-person-ineos-sunday-times-rich-list Fracking mogul Jim Ratcliffe becomes UK’s richest person], ''The Observer,'' 13 May 2018 </ref>
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Previously he had ranked among the UK's 25 richest people, with a net worth of £5.75 billion in 2017.<ref> [http://uk.businessinsider.com/sunday-times-rich-list-2017-richest-people-uk-britain-2017-4?r=US&IR=T/#25-joe-lewis-1 These are the 25 richest people in Britain], ''Business Insider UK'', 7 May 2017, 8:40 AM </ref>
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Ratcliffe was knighted in the 2018 Queen's birthday honours list. <ref> [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-queens-birthday-honours-list-2018 Queens Birthday LIst], gov.uk,  8 June 2018 </ref>  
  
 
===Meetings on shale gas with UK government ministers and officials===
 
===Meetings on shale gas with UK government ministers and officials===

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Jim Ratcliffe is the founding chairman and main shareholder of the petrochemical giant Ineos Group. In 2018 he was ranked as Britain's wealthiest person on the Sunday Times Rich List. His fortune was calculated to have grown by an incredible £15billion on the previous year, rising to £21billion, driven by a huge increase in the value of Ineos. [1]

Previously he had ranked among the UK's 25 richest people, with a net worth of £5.75 billion in 2017.[2]

Ratcliffe was knighted in the 2018 Queen's birthday honours list. [3]

Meetings on shale gas with UK government ministers and officials

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