Chemical Industries Association
Background
The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is an organisation that represents chemical and pharmaceutical businesses throughout the UK. It both lobbies on behalf of the chemical industry and provides advice and services to the industry.[1] Chemicals manufacturing in the UK is largely concentrated in the northern regions of the UK and Scotland, in four key chemical Clusters and are represented locally by Cluster Teams. In Scotland by Chemicals Team Scotland, Northwest England represented by Chemicals Northwest, Northeast England represented by the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and in Yorkshire and Humber by Yorkshire Chemical Focus and Humber Chemical Focus.[2]
The CIA owns and supports Chemicals Northwest.[3]
History
People
- Steve Elliott - chief executive
- Simon Marsh - employment and communications director[4]
Fracking
CIA published a four-page pamphlet 'Shale Gas: The facts which contained statements such as:
- Seismic activity from fracking is equivalent to background motion caused by vehicles
- Each well’s total water use is equivalent to that used on a golf course in a month
- Fracking takes place at sufficient distance from groundwater and surface activities are regulated
- Once a well is bored the well pad will have a visually low impact
- Use of chemicals is permitted on a well by well basis and subject to public disclosure
And:
- The UK is well placed to develop Bowland shale which is 10 times the depth of any US shale
- Unconventional gas offers a vital new source of raw materials for chemical products
- Gas will underpin intermittent renewables like wind power
- Carbon emissions from UK shale gas will be comparable to conventional gas
Affiliations
- Chemical Industry All-Party Parliamentary Group - CIA acts as the group’s secretariat and meets the cost of room hire and refreshments.
- Enterprise Forum
- The Chemical Industries Association has provided funding to the Science Media Centre from 2004 to 2013 according to the SMC.[5]
Contact
- Address
- Kings Buildings,
- Smith Square,
- London
- SW1P 3JJ
- Telephone: 020 7834 3399
- Fax: 020 7834 4469
- Email:
References
- ↑ About CIA, CIA website. Accessed 17/10/13.
- ↑ Chemicals - the UK Advantage, UK Trade & Investment, p. 29. Accessed on 17/10/13.
- ↑ Welcome, Chemicals Northwest website. Accessed on 17/10/13.
- ↑ Photos and biographies, CIA website. Accessed on 17/10/13.
- ↑ Data from Internet Archive holdings of the Science Media Centre website, 2002-2013.
- Oct 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041205182639/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm ; and http://web.archive.org/web/20051029205959/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
- Nov 2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20051227000834/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
- Apr 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20060910221525/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
- Feb 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070829210611/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
- Jul 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20081202143334/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
- May 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090830202526/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
- May 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100822091312/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
- Jun 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/20110807075127/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
- Aug 2012 http://web.archive.org/web/20120922235445/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
- Aug 2013 Science Media Centre, 'Funding' August 2013 screengrab of http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/funding/, taken 16 August 2013.
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