Opponents included an impressive line up of scientists (among them Robert Howarth, co-author of last year's landmark Cornell University study, which established the staggering greenhouse-gas footprint of fracking), engineers, lawyers, and other professionals.
"As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly Face Cuts in Aid" (front page, July 5) demonstrates the dramatic effect that staggering increases in gas prices are having on our vulnerable elderly population.
If all goes well the first cargoes should start to ship from there in 2015, at a cost of some $5 billion for a capacity of 8m tpa.Plans are in hand to remodel other redundant terminals for export as well as to capitalise on the staggering differentials in gas prices between regions.
China's CNOOC, for example, has purchased a staggering amount of oil and gas resources and reserves globally, accounting for nearly 50% of all acquisition spending in 2011.
USwitch reckons anyone on a standard dual fuel variable deal with British gas could save a staggering £252 a year by making the switch.
Food and farming contribute a whopping 18% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, and a staggering 8% of all UK emissions come from growing food and rearing farm animals.
Even though China was sucking up oil, coal, and natural gas supplies at a staggering rate, he had a message for that country and the world: "The era of easy access to energy is over".
So keep in mind that it wasn't under Palin's tutelage but Barack Obama's that the United States experienced its staggering resurgence in the oil and gas sweepstakes, turning itself into "Saudi America".
The industry's powerful Washington mouthpiece, the American Petroleum Institute, argues that the staggering earnings simply reflect oil and gas companies' tremendous contributions to the economy, and that their stock prices are shoring up the nation's pension funds.
Today's figures are staggering: the typical household has a combined gas and electricity bill of £112.75 a month.
