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Ineos on Monday called upon the government to “either make shale workable or shut it down”. The company’s plea comes as the UK has in place a current 0.5 magnitude limit on seismic activity related to fracking, which authorities have refused to alter, describing it as “fit for purpose”.
Cuadrilla boss Francis Egan has previously criticised the “extremely conservative” limit on hydraulic fracturing operations, which repeatedly paused the company’s work in northern England.
Ineos is now calling on the government “to develop an onshore gas industry in the UK” by looking at measures taken by other countries that have an already developed shale gas industry.
“The government’s position is unworkable and unhelpful. They are playing politics with the future of the country. We have a non-existent energy strategy and are heading towards an energy crisis that will do long term and irreparable damage to the economy and the Government needs to decide whether they are finally going...
Ineos went on to claim the “government is shutting down shale by the backdoor and is betting the future of our manufacturing industry on windmills and imported gas from countries, which are potentially unstable”.
In the UK, England has been the sole issuer of fracking permits, amid the Conservative government’s push for the development of a shale gas industry in the country.
However, Scotland and Northern Ireland have bans on shale exploration in place while undergoing consultations on the industry’s potential. Wales has had a moratorium in place on fracking since 2015, and recently moved to effectively ban hydraulic fracturing after a consultation on the controversial technique.
Cuadrilla, so far, the only company in England to be issued a permit for hydraulic fracturing, has had to stop fracking multiple times for breaching the current limit at its site in Little Plumpton in Lancashire.
Multiple tremors have been registered since Cuadrilla’s operations began, most under the 0.5 magnitude limit. A micro seismic event of 1.5 local magnitude was the highest registered to date.
In addition, there have been repeated protests across the UK over fracking permits, with several lawsuits filed against the government for allowing the projects to be carried out.
Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, said: “For years those worried about fracking have been assured that our safety regulations are far tougher than those in the US. Now that the industry is having trouble sticking to UK regulations, we’re assured US regulations are perfectly adequate and should be copied her...
Clarets midfielder Joey Barton feels he has plenty of miles in the tank yet.
But he admits he has thought about a future in the game beyond his playing days, and he would like to go into management – if he can find a chairman to hire him!
The 33-year-old wouldn’t necessarily want to be thrown straight into the deep end immediately, however.
Asked whether he would like to go into management, Barton said: “Most probably, I would like to.
“I know it’ll be swimming against your past, you have to convince someone to give you a job.
“I believe in what I am about. I am going to have to overcome a few more hurdles than other people.
“I would personally like to do it slightly differently, learn my trade.
Having seen Gary Neville’s baptism of fire at Valencia, Barton would prefer to work his way up: “You see Gary Neville at Valencia and the jury is still out there.
“I know I live football and that is the only thing I want to do for the rest of my life.
“But I don’t want to take an opportunity ill-prepared.
“You have to put the hard work in and learn the trade.
“I will probably take the opportunity, I have probably I think I have the skill set to go into that.
However, that day is some way away just yet, although he enjoys being able to pass on knowledge he has accumulated over his career, good and bad.
He feels molly-coddled young players nowadays have a lot to learn: “I don’t feel 33, you see some players in their latter stages and you can see it.
“I am not there. I don’t know why.
“When I see young kids, I don’t get self-righteous.
“Nobody could talk to me from the ages of 21 to 27, I was completely in my own world.
“It is a strange industry we are in.
“It is a very fearful time for them, they are thrown into the deep end, men’s football.
“They are scared little boys. You have to be mindful.
“If they ask me for stuff, I try to give the best advice I can.
“Don’t be drinking in city centres, stuff that is quite self-explanatory, but when the manager doesn’t pick them and their heads go down, I can talk to them, explain the managers might be testing them.
“The kids coming through academy systems, they don’t have skills to deal with life.
“This is a 20-year-old lad.
“The mind boggles. No, you get a mortgage.
“You think they would know that, I was a bit more streetwise growing up.
Actress Amy Jackson, who recently announced her pregnancy, is currently chilling in Dubai with her fiancé George Panayiotou. Amy, who has starred in films like 2.0 and Singh Is Bliing, shared a picture of herself and George by the beach comfortably settled in a hammock. "Bump spam has started," she captioned the pictur...
Amy Jackson and George Panayiotou got engaged earlier this year. In January, Amy shared a cosy picture of herself with George and wrote: "Yes a gazillion times!!!!! The start of our new adventure in life. I love you. Thank you for making me the happiest girl in the world."
Amy Jackson made her big screen debut with Tamil film Madrasapattinam in 2010 and two years later she debuted in Bollywood with Ekk Deewana Tha. Amy Jackson also starred in Telugu film Yevadu.
I, Thanga Magan, Gethu, Theri and Devi are among her other Tamil films. She has featured in Bollywood films Freaky Ali and Singh Is Bliing. She was last seen in S Shankar's 2.0, co-starring Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar.
Amy Jackson also had a recurring role in television series Supergirl.
TRAMS will be running along Princes Street come January 2014. . . but you won’t be allowed to board one for six months.
Empty tram cars will be test-run for half-a-year before opening their doors to the public – without picking up a single passenger.
The deserted carriages will shuttle through the Capital as part of sweeping safety tests before the project is officially handed over to the city.
Transport chiefs claim thorough testing is “essential” to ensure the line is working correctly before launch, but today one tram expert said the six-month trial was “excessive”.
Professor Lewis Lesley, technical director of light rail company Trampower, insisted one month of testing was the “normal minimum” to debug new routes but said it can take longer “depending on the relationship between contractor and client”.
City leader Andrew Burns, below, said the authority faced a “PR challenge” to explain empty carriages to residents who have been waiting to see working trams on the streets since 2008.
“When roadworks are clear – and by the end of this year all the big construction will be clear – and trams will be tested all over the city, people will be saying ‘when can we get on here’,” he said.
Adequate testing of Edinburgh’s curtailed route is vital for tram driver training, working out kinks in the line and ensuring the route is running smoothly before commissioned for use.
Testing – or “shadow running” – has already taken place on the completed stretch from Gogarburn to Edinburgh Airport but 800 individual tests are needed to take place across the route.
Simon Johnston, editor of Tramways and Urban Transit magazine, said he “completely understands” why testing in Edinburgh could take up to six months and urged residents to be patient.
The News has told how drivers were paid to steer trams around a test track to prevent the wheels from seizing up while they were in storage – costing around £500,000 in wages before the project goes live.
Transport Minister Keith Brown said: “This is positive and welcome news for residents and businesses and offers further assurance that good progress is being made in relation to the revised timetable.
“Since the new governance arrangements were put in place, Transport Scotland has played a key role in supporting the council and contractor in getting the project back on track.
Triano, 59, played professionally in Mexico and Turkey and played on the Canadian national team in the Olympics in 1984 and ’86. He has also served as Canadian men’s national team coach.
Triano got his start as an NBA assistant with the Raptors in 2002. He spent four seasons as an assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers before being named Watson’s top assistant with the Suns in 2016.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian explorers have found the wreck of one of two ships lost in the 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada’s Northwest Passage, solving an enduring historical mystery and bolstering Canada’s claim to the key Arctic trade route.
Sir John Franklin and his 128 crew in the British ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were seeking the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans when they became stuck in ice. The men all died and the ships vanished.
“I am delighted to announce that this year’s Victoria Strait expedition has solved one of Canada’s greatest mysteries, with the discovery of one of the two ships belonging to the Franklin Expedition,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.
The mystery has gripped Canadians for generations, in part because of the crew’s grisly fate. Tales handed down through the aboriginal Inuit people describe cannibalism among the desperate seamen.
Harper, who has visited the Arctic territory of Nunavut every year since taking power in 2006, said the discovery was an historic moment for Canada.
“Franklin’s ships are an important part of Canadian history given that his expeditions, which took place nearly 200 years ago, laid the foundations of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty,” he said.
Global warming is rapidly melting the Arctic ice sheets, opening up the possibility that ships traveling between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans could use the Northwest Passage as a short cut.
Canada says it has sovereignty over the passage but the United States does not acknowledge this, saying the channel lies in international waters.
This year’s bid to locate the ships included money spent on seabed mapping to make “Canada’s Arctic both safer and more secure,” according to a Parks Canada release at the time of the expedition.
Parks Canada archaeologists discovered the wreck using a remotely operated underwater vehicle.
An image released showed a largely intact wooden ship resting upright on the sea bed only 11 meters (36 feet) below the surface. Some of the deck structures were still intact, although the main mast had been sheared off.
Harper said experts did not yet know whether the ship found was the Erebus or the Terror.
Canadian divers and archaeologists had been trying since 2008 to find the ships, which became ice-bound off King William Island in the Victoria Strait in Nunavut.
The search for Franklin started in the late 1840s and over the decades teams have discovered traces of 70 crew members, some of whom started trekking overland in desperation when it became clear the ships would never escape from the ice.
They proved hard to find because they drifted in ice for hundreds of miles and the Inuit gave conflicting accounts of where they sank.
With negotiations on participation in production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) entering a critical phase, Italy’s government has come under fire from its industry for taking too soft a position on US technology transfer restrictions.
Alenia Aeronautica president Giorgio Zappa has said, in a New York Times interview, that access to sensitive technology is a key issue in the negotiations, adding that his company is not satisfied with the answers so far received from the USA.
The final round of negotiations on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the JSF production, sustainment and follow-on development phase takes place this month in the USA. While Australia and the UK have threatened not to sign the MoU unless technology transfer issues are resolved, Italy has been more cautious.
“All the countries are playing hard ball in the negotiations,” says Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin F-35 programme general manager, who adds that Italy’s request to host a second final-assembly and check-out facility for the JSF has been approved.
With a requirement for 130 conventional and short take-off and landing aircraft, Italy is potentially the second largest international customer after the UK. Rome has committed $1 billion to the JSF system development and demonstration phase, but Italian industry says only a third of the promised €320 million ($387 mil...
Even if the draft MoU is released as planned in June, each of the international partners must gain parliamentary approval to purchase the JSF before signing the agreement in December, and issues over technology transfer and industrial participation have fuelled political opposition in some of the countries, including I...
Being accepted into the Executive MBA Program at the Simon Business School means you're well-rounded, successful, and have the potential to become a strong leader within your organization. It also means you'll be surrounded by other students who share your ambition to keep moving onward and upward in their careers. Tog...
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While studying at the Simon Business School, you’ll be working on a team whose members are chosen for the diversity of their skills and industry backgrounds. In no time, you’ll come to rely on your teammates for support and assistance, not just to complete challenging team assignments, but to share ideas and experience...
CHICAGO — By all accounts, the Trump administration is on an anti-immigrant tear that threatens to obliterate the already-broken immigration system in this country.
A few weeks back I spoke to Adam Estle, field director and director of constituencies for the National Immigration Forum, a Washington-based advocacy organization. He told me that regular Americans have a lot of sway when it comes to whether policy proposals become reality — just by making their thoughts known to their...
"Offices keep track of phone calls on an issue and a personal letter — not a form letter that you just stick your name on, but a personally written letter about why this issue matters to you — is usually held in high regard, because it's something that takes time," Estle said. "But studies have shown that the very best...
"We do read every single bit of correspondence — from social-media direct messages, to our mail, phone calls ... but I think you can't put a price on in-person meetings and being face-to-face when we hear your stories," said Anderson, adding that most congressional offices will do town-hall and Q&A events in the commun...
If you're better on your feet, walk into an office and politely ask someone to listen — your voice matters greatly in not letting 2019 be the year the U.S. ceases to be a beacon of light for the world and instead becomes an international shame.
Esther J. Cepeda is a nationally syndicated columnist with The Washington Post Writers Group. She was previously a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her email address is estherjcepeda@washpost.com, or follow her on Twitter: @estherjcepeda.
A 29-year-old Saddle Brook woman was arrested Thursday on child abuse charges, authorities said.
Jenny Herrera-Gomez was charged with child abuse, said the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Saddle Brook Police Department in a joint statement. Authorities did not say what’s the relation between the child and Herrera-Gomez or the age of the victim.
The Division of Child Protection and Permanency was alerted after a school in Saddle Brook told them a child arrived with bruises on the legs and other parts of the body, authorities said. The DCPP reported to police.
Police later discovered Herrera-Gomez as the suspect and she was arrested, authorities said.
PwC Australia has today announced the creation of an advisory board to provide guidance and to add further strength to PwC’s CMO Advisory practice.
The two external appointees to the board are Sunita Gloster, CEO, Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA), and Mark Buckman, Managing Director, Customer and Retail, Foxtel.
PwC Chief Creative Officer Russel Howcroft said Sunita’s and Mark’s appointment would “turbocharge” the CMO advisory offering at a time when the business was at a critical growth phase.
“Having industry leaders such as Mark and Sunita joining our CMO Advisory board is a critical part of our growth strategy for this new practice,” he said.
PwC’s CMO Advisory has six key areas of expertise including Brand Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Market Insights, Marketing Performance and Analytics, Marketing Structure and Operations and Creative Solutions.
A man upset about the fatal police shooting of a friend in 2012 repeatedly rammed a pickup truck into the building of a Dallas television station on Wednesday morning, shattering floor-to-ceiling windows during the station’s morning newscast, the police said.
After slamming into the downtown Dallas building around 6 a.m., the man exited the truck and began yelling and throwing paper into the air, according to the station, KDFW-TV, a Fox affiliate. Before the police arrived, he held photos, handwritten notes and a news article about the shooting up to one of the building’s w...
The driver, who was identified as Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, was taken to a hospital for a “medical evaluation” and was later booked into the Dallas County Jail on a felony criminal mischief charge, the police said. No bond had been set as of Wednesday afternoon.
Major Max Geron of the Dallas Police Department said the man had “mental issues” and was trying to bring attention to the fatal shooting, which occurred in Denton County, north of Dallas. In that October 2012 episode, a Denton County sheriff’s deputy opened fire on a car Mr. Fry was riding in after the authorities said...

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