Monday
Feb102014
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Money...mouth
Feb 10, 2014 Energy: gas The boss of American oil company Breitling Energy took out a full-page ad in this week's Sunday Telegraph, trying to persuade us all to get behind shale gas.
I like his style - see this bit for example:
Fracking is going on under my own home, my whole town, and much of my home state. We're surrounded by thousands of fracked oil and gas wells, and my family and I drink the water every day. If I thought it was unsafe I would not be living on top of it.
There is nothing like putting your money where your mouth is.
Reader Comments (9)
It made the case well, but why place it in a specialist oil and gas business supplement, where most readers will already agree with him?
It needs to be repeated where much more general readership will see it.
Now that's what I call a sensible sight for sore eyes (even with the green logo, border and other green branding!)
P.S. Bish, I really do like your new "Seen Elsewhere" feature ... IMHO, much more informative than a twitterfeed! And speaking of the new features in this congregation ...
I was wondering whether it is a bug or a feature that (as I found out through trial and error, prior to successfully - I hope! - submitting on the Slingo thread) a registered user who wants to use the "my comment is on my own site" [or some facsimile of that wording] must first log out in order to make that form visible.
Not sure that's the best tactic. Sadly, it back-fired the last time it was used in the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239435/John-Gummer-man-fed-daughter-hamburger-BSE-crisis-quits-Commons.html
From the ecoloons who might read it I suspect it will generate the Mandy Rice-Davis response.
All I can say is thank you Chris Faulkner for your realism and concern for your allies. Did you send it to the Climate Change committee ?
Left-wingers are generous, not nasty, and therefore believe in putting other people's money where their mouth is. How many officials in the Equality and Human Rights Commission send their children to schools where most of the children are of foreign origin and only a minority come from homes where English is the first language? How many chose to live in "diverse" neighbourhoods? I could be doing them a disservice but I suspect that most of them unselfishly decline some of the benefits of diversity in order to allow ordinary people to enjoy those benefits.
Therefore I am somewhat doubtful that the Guardian reading classes would be impressed by the example of the boss of Breitling Energy putting his money where his mouth is.
Like Ian (Feb 11, 10.05) I was reminded of the future Lord Deben and the beefburger.
Having met Chris Breitling at a couple of conferences, and knowing he is out there promoting what he and his company do well, it is excellent to hear that he is communicating the message in the UK as well.
Dear Citizen of The United States of America
Thank you Mr Faulkner for joining the Pantomime Villain Club. We can see through your little game right into your back pocket. Why don't you stay at home in your comfortable under-fracked mansion and enjoy the view as you look out on the array of attractive flaring rigs polluting the air you breathe. No doubt you also get the thrill of watching convoys of heavy trucks servicing the thousands of wells. It just frightens me to think this could happen in our beautiful countryside, towns and villages.