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Feb 16, 2016 Energy: oil Greens I wonder what was said when Steve Sanderson, the Chairman of UK Oil and Gas Investments, met Natalie Bennet at the Horse Hill exploration site this morning?
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NB : can we borrow some propane? it's really cold, our tofu's frozen
Seriously, though, Natalie, that car-crash interview, before the election... You were really playing it for laughs, weren't you?
Do we actually give a ...!
Welcome Ms. Bennet, I'm told you're also an expert on boring.
CEO -'Ideally we would forget this, and harness the greatest power source in the universe'
Bennett -'Fusion ?'
CEO- 'No. your jaw'
Might Steve have asked Natalie whether she had a pleasant journey without fossil fuels?
Just because you try to buy only "organic" electricity generated by the wind for household use that does not mean that the country can do without gas!
Looks to me he's explaining the most direct route to get off the site
Joking apart, it looks like a very civilised meeting. He's talking, she's listening. No protesters, no placards - all very grown up. Still like to have heard what was being said, though!
Charlie,
Sorry, but with her body language (head down, looking away), I think it's more like he's talking, she's ignoring.
NB - Gizza' job! I can do that! Gizza' job!
Phil,
Look at the mirroring of the feet and torsos - classic non-threatening body language.
"You'd like to be my fence??"
Probably what René Artois from 'Allo 'Allo! would say to his wife Edith.
NB: No, Steve, it's not Gordon.
We'll give you a £500 in used notes, dropped off every Friday to your house to pretend you didn't see anything.
"So I can't drill this as it doesn't exist? Tell me more about this Peak Oil idea, Ms Bennett.
It sounds like it's the answer to this Global Warming issue too. All our problems solved so that's very good news, isn't it?
If you just drop me an email I'll get back to my empty hole in the ground.
Run along now..."
He's saying, "OK Natalie just stand here and look down the end of that pipe over there. When I turn the valve, you will see for yourself exactly what a flow-rate of 700 barrels per day looks like."
Do I know you?
CEO: No, it's true, actually. Whenever you breathe or fart, you are releasing CO2 or methane into the atmosphere.
NB: [thinking] Why didn't somebody warn me?
Hello, Natalie, glad to see your parallel career in comedy going so well. Did the idiot who leaked your TV interview before Comic Relief day get the sack, or was that just a warm up routine?
Overcast, windless, cold: a picture is worth a thousand words.
What he's really saying is "Come on Natalie, you don't really believe this global warming crap do you?"
NB: "Damn, when the office said I should attend the Oil and Gas Drill, I thought it was our latest demonstration method practice... I brought the chains as well."
If all the technical, intellectual, and political challenges we face in producing affordable energy supplies, were represented by the distance from here to the centre of the earth, here is the size of your bit of it.
"No Natalie. You put the LEFT leg in , then the Left leg out. Try and follow me, and we'll do the hokey Cokey together."
I think Dave Salt wins the prize but -
"Sssss.... Sssssss. Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong."
"What? Buy in to renewables? Nah, I stick with the reliably illuminated side powered by fossil fuels thanks... oh and Nat? You might want to get that nasty wheezing seen to. Probably caused by your renewable wood fire. Nasty stuff, biofuels. Can I give you a lift? The Green Party Death Star is a fair distance away by bike."
He's talking about geology and she's just thinking "red trousers, is he mad?''.
"You see this oil field ? It used to be herds of giant marsupials until the early Aborigines killed them all."
What he's really saying is "Come on Natalie, you don't really believe this global warming crap do you?"
Feb 16, 2016 at 4:53 PM | Registered CommenterPhillip Bratby
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... and she's mumbling ... well I have to, as without all my congregation I've got no job
"Natalie, you must be exhausted after walking all the way here. Let me take that totally-natural-fiber back-pack off you. I like all the locally made clothes you're wearing BTW."
You could at least have worn green trousers...
Don't really care what they're saying but it's nice to know that there's an executive chairman of a huge conglomerate that has the self-assurance to dress like Beck.
Waste of oxygen, waste of space.
The stance is nor mirroring, it's just been a long conversation. Of more interest, they can't even stand to look each other in the face.
Pointman
Pointman:
Correct. One is leaning to the right, the other to the left. Must be subconscious."Have you seen my other glove? It's just like this one and matches my face and trousers."
Strewth, Nats, I'm freezing my nuts off here. How's about you rustle up some of that global warming stuff before lunch?
Nathalie points out Steve's latest error: Purple jackets and red trousers are for nuclear and diversity events, formless trench coats and bandanas for site visits.
"This oil... would you like a bath, madam? I am told it is very good for the complexion".
He's saying "Look, muppet, its really very simple. The Amber Rudderless sits down with him and offers ten million quid to drill a well, frack it, test it and if its viable to prepare the basic engineering for a few development options, costs them, prepares the environmental impact studies and applies for planning permissions. Of course, we will explain to your muppets that this is only the testing phase but they won't listen so, sorry, but the forces of law and order will have to be brought in to get your muppets to go home. All this will take at least three years then another two years in the planning process by which time the value of hydrocarbons may have risen enough to make shale gas economical. I love you Nat but please F off back to pastures green where these problems don't exist".
Steve: You go right straight through this door here, down the hall...
Natalie: Yeah.
Steve: turn right...
Natalie: Yeah.
Steve: and then there's a little jog there, about thirty feet.
Natalie: A jog?
Steve: jog to the left...
Natalie: A jog? We don't have time for that.
Andrew
Oils ain't oils.
"Oh, I thought someone said Gordon Bennett"
We only have limited vacancies right now, I'm afraid.
Bleeting with the enemy
SS: Natalie, the training was intensive, the sacrifice supreme, but of all our 5th columnists you are the most effective. Your efforts have been noted with Mr Big Oil.
"Pointman:
The stance is nor mirroring,
Correct. One is leaning to the right, the other to the left. Must be subconscious."
Have not noticed that that's what happens in a mirror??
"So you favour the Guardian policy of dropping investment in fossil fuels? Have you seen what my shares did today?"
LOOK AT MY RED TROUSERS!