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The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

~Jim Ratcliffe

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There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

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It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

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Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

~Jim Ratcliffe

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Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

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In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

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If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

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Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.

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Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: October 18th, 1952

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