Simon Whitehead

Whitehead (far right) on the panel at a conference discussing 'US Shale Gas Revolution and its Implications' with Prof. Alan Riley (The City Law School), Atle Rettedal (Statoil), Benjamín Palomo-Sanz (Repsol), Ford Nicholson (Kepis & Pobe) and Michael O'Dwyer (Morgan Stanley).

This article is part of the Lobbying Portal, a sunlight project from Spinwatch.

Simon Whitehead is the managing director of energy at lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton Strategies.

He previously worked for College Hill.

Views on shale gas in the UK

This article is part of the Spinwatch Fracking Portal and project

Whitehead was a speaker at the Shale Gas UK conference in October 2013, where he was forthright about what he felt had gone wrong with frackers' pitch to the public:

There needs to be an industry-wide, offensive campaign with a fresh new narrative giving more of a brand feel to shale gas developments. Fracking needs a re-brand, perhaps with a ‘kitemark’ for safe developers.”

Cuadrilla has over-egged the issue. Their claims about gas in place against recoverable reserves are still confused and people don’t really know the answer.”

Contact, Resources and Notes

Resources

See: Fracking lobbying firms

• Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.