North West Energy Task Force
The North West Energy Task Force (NWETF) aims to encourage local businesses in the north west of England to become part of the supply chain for the shale gas industry.
Officially:
- 'The North West Energy Task Force is charged with understanding how the responsible extraction of natural gas from lancashire’s shale can be used to create jobs, generate economic growth and boost local revenues.'
Supporters
Funded by Cuadrilla Resources and Centrica, 'however our activities and views are independent of our financial supporters'. [1]
See interactive Supporters Map.
People
SME panel
- Marcus Addison - Managing director of Addison Group
- Clair Smith - President of StayBlackpool
- Martin Long - Chair of Blackpool Leadership Group
- Philip Hargreave - Chief executive of Inteb Sustainability
- Gary Lovatt - Regional Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses
- Steve Pye - Chairman of Lancashire TV; former Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses
- Frank McLaughlin - Retired commercial director
- Michael Damms - CEO of the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
- Babs Murphy - Chief executive of the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
- Bernard Whittle - Former Lancashire County Council member
- John Kersey - Former chairman of the Lancashire branch of the Institute of Directors
- Lee Petts - managing director of Remsol, chairman of the Lancashire branch of the Institute of Directors
- Rob Green - Independent governor of Edge Hill University
- Sean Lord - Director of Lytham Technology
- Nick Campbell - Risk Manager at Inspired Energy PLC
- Peter Whitehead - Managing director of Whiteheads Solicitors
Agricultural panel
Lobbying firms
- Westbourne Communications, handled by senior account executive Tom Evans, who previously worked for Jim Fitzpatrick, a former Labour minister for transport and Defra. The firm appears to have produced NWETF's Exploring Shale Series.
Publications
- What does shale extraction mean for farming and agriculture in the North West?, The Exploring Shale Series, [undated] 2014
Resources
See: Fracking Spads
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
- Video: Meet the Frackers: a Spinwatch lobbying tour, Spinwatch | YouTube, 16 January 2017.
