UK Fracking: Cuadrilla and British Geological Survey bond over love of Leonard Cohen in embarrassing leaked emails
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Cuadrilla and British Geological Survey bond over love of Leonard Cohen in embarrassing leaked emails
‘“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,” runs the opening line of Leonard Cohen’s famous 1988 hit. Those bitterly pessimistic words, green campaigners claim, could now be applied to the extraction of shale gas under Lancashire.
The close relationship between the fracking company Cuadrilla and the British Geological Survey (BGS) has been revealed by a cache of emails in which executives discuss attending one of the Canadian songwriter’s concerts together.
The exchanges, between the private firm hoping to exploit the UK’s shale gas resources and the public body tasked with providing the Government with impartial advice on the safety of the controversial extraction technique, were made in the months leading up to the disclosure of the UK’s reserves last year.’
