Fracking lobbying map

This article is part of the Spinwatch Fracking Portal and project

Meet the Frackers

<youtube width="200" height="120" align="right" caption="Meet the Frackers: a Spinwatch lobbying tour">toTLr2yIJ5E</youtube> For an overview of UK fracking firms and their lobbyists watch Spinwatch's 'Meet the Frackers' lobbying tour video, released January 2017.

Fracking firms

Celtique Energy | Centrica | Cuadrilla | Ineos | Igas Energy | Oil and Gas UK | Tamboran Resources | Third Energy

Oil and gas industry shareholders and backers

Centrica | China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd (CNOOC) | Total |

Lobbying agencies

• Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
• Burson-Marsteller
• Edelman
• Hanover Communications
• Hill and Knowlton Strategies
• Lexington Communications
• MHP Communications
• Portland PR
• PPS/Newgate Communications
• Weber Shandwick
• Westbourne Communications

Government departments

• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy since July 2016 (formerly Department for Energy and Climate Change)
• Defra

Parliamentary groups

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Shale Gas Regulation and Planning
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas

Think Tanks

• Centre for Policy Studies
• Institute of Directors

Consultancy firms

• Ernst & Young
• Deloitte
• KPMG
• PricewaterhouseCoopers

Financial backers

• Barclays - Third Energy
• HSBC - bankers to Cuadrilla
• Macquarie Bank

Trade associations and business lobby groups

• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
• Chemical Industries Association - has produced factsheets and videos
• Energy UK
• United Kingdom Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) - takes a leading role on promoting shale
• Royal Academy of Engineering

Unions

• GMB
• Unite