Fracking: Law, Environment and Opinion

Louise Smail has extensive experience in the field of risk management with a wide range of organisations, including local government, police, manufacturing and many train operating companies. Louise has worked as Principle consultant and director of two international consulting groups and now runs own consultancy, Ortalan where she works on high profile projects looking at business risk evaluation and performance at board level and the impact of changes in legislation in both the UK and Europe. She writes and lectures extensively and is the General Editor of the Corporate Liability: Work related Deaths and Criminal Prosecutions and Consultant editor of Health and Safety at Work Newsletter (both published by Bloomsbury Professional). Louise went to University in Manchester where she obtained a Ph.D. and a master in Law and where she now lives.Mike Appleby is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP and specialises in defending directors, senior individuals and companies facing investigation or prosecution for health and safety offences or manslaughter arising from work related incidents.

• IntroductionWhat is fracking and where does it occurWhere is fracking and the worldGovernment development of shale gas industryArguments for and agianst frackingEconomicEnvironmentalPublic opinionStage to start frackingBEIS (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) Regulatory road mapOwnership and licensing (Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL)Landowners ConsentEnvironment Agency Assessment risk to water and management of wastePlanning Permission – LA and views rom Local CommunitySpecial HSE inspectors scrutinise designOGA (Oil and Gas Authority) checksHydraulic fracking consent from BEISRegulations- Infrastructure Act 2015 RegulatorsEnvironmental RegulatorsHealth and Safety RegulatorJoint Inspection by EA and HSEShale Environmental Regulator GroupCommissioner for Shale GasEngagement – Community Charter UK Offshore Oil and Gas Safety and the Environment Royal Society reviewPublic Health EnglandGreen blouse gas emissions reportBEIS factsheet and monitoring siteDamage to PropertyHome Insurance (House prices)Fracking and climate changeLocal environmental impactsAppendixSummary of Cases