Drill or Drop is a website publishing "independent, evidence-based" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it. It is named after the “drill or drop” clause in a petroleum exploration and development licence that requires an operator to drill a well within a certain length of time or give up the licence area.
The website asks whether the UK should drill – “go all out for shale” (and other sources of hydrocarbons) as David Cameron believes, or drop the idea because it carries too great a risk to climate change, environmental damage, human rights and an industrialised countryside, as many campaigners believe. It sets out to chronicle the events of the onshore oil and gas industry across the UK, following the regulators, political decision-makers, legal developments and the opposition campaign.
I've only just discovered it (after much exploration), and shall be following its posts to get a feel for what it says. However, I expect it is already required reading for all those groups opposed to fracking in particular, and oil and gas in general. After all, their need for independent, evidence-based information about all this is all too clear.
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Oh well that says a lot if Drill or Drop is uni based. When I was of uni age I felt I knew it all and the government the government of idiots by idiots. Unfortunately as you age you realise that there are hundreds of interests which dictate a national situation, and it is not so black and white as you thought it was. In effect uni students are kids with very little experience at all of the world, as such they can be listened to, but in the long run they displace their lack of experience and become an irrelevance