Fracking lobbying map
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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
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
Consultancy firms
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