I think Ineos should drill as many wells as possible across Scotland to develop the UK shale oil revolution. It’s self-sufficiency staring us in the face. It won’t be like the US boom and regulators and environmentalists can and will play their part. Luddites and statists should stop moaning and realise the opportunity- if they still harbour their dreams-a vibrant shale oil and gas sector along with North Sea and the West of Shetland oil fields, wind, solar and tidal projects elsewhere Scotland could be a powerful self-sufficient exporter of energy.
There’s plenty of time and incentive for the engineers to improve their techniques too. Landowners and local communities should and will be compensated they just need a bit of organisation when approaches by explorers are made.
Also all those people on the state payroll including quangos, central and local government staff can rest easy with all the tax revenues helping for their schemes and general inertia.
Good luck to Jim Radcliffe- get fracking, it’s good for us. All with mentioning the future water opportunities.
LDC