Task Force on Shale Gas

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People

  • Lord Smith is the founding Chair of the Task Force on Shale Gas. He served the Environment Agency as chair from 2008 to 2014 and has been chair of the Advertising Standards Authority since 2006. He is a former shadow environment secretary.
  • Baroness Patience Wheatcroft. Has served as a non-executive director of Barclays plc, which has financial interests in shale gas.
  • Professor Ernest Rutter. Professor of Structural Geology at the University of Manchester School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. 'His research includes studies of natural rock fracture and flow through field studies, plus laboratory-based experimental rock mechanics and petrophysics, aimed at understanding rock behaviour in nature and under engineering conditions. The latter has implications for the stability of excavations and boreholes employed in the exploitation of natural resources, and the flow of fluids though rocks'

Advisory experts

Funding

The Task Force on Shale Gas' website states that 'it undertakes never to represent the views of funders, whether from industry or other stakeholder groups, to the government or the media'.

Responsibility for ensuring impartiality and independence from funders is vested in the Task Force Chair, Lord Chris Smith. Funders receive a report of Task Force activities and progress from the Chair every 6 months.

The Task Force has so far received £650,000 in funding from these companies:

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