{"id":6487,"date":"2015-11-10T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T08:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T08:40:37","slug":"drill-or-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/11\/10\/drill-or-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill Or Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drillordrop.com\">Drill or Drop<\/a>\u00a0is a website\u00a0publishing \"independent, evidence-based\" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it. \u00a0It\u00a0is named after the \u201cdrill or drop\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>The website\u00a0asks whether the UK should drill \u2013 \u201cgo all out for shale\u201d (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. \u00a0It\u00a0sets out to chronicle the events of the onshore oil and gas industry across the UK, \u00a0following the regulators, political decision-makers, legal developments and the opposition campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I've only just discovered it (after much exploration), and shall be following its posts to get a feel for what it says. \u00a0However, I expect it is already\u00a0required reading for all those groups opposed to fracking in particular, and oil and gas in general. \u00a0After all, their need\u00a0for <em>independent, evidence-based<\/em> information about all this is all too clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drill or Drop\u00a0is a website\u00a0publishing \"independent, evidence-based\" journalism about the onshore oil and gas business in the UK and the campaign against it. \u00a0It\u00a0is named after the \u201cdrill or drop\u201d clause in a petroleum exploration and development licence that requires...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}