Carbon Brief: 1,000 trillion cubic feet of offshore UK shale gas?

Reports emerged yesterday that the UK might have around 1,000 trillion cubic feet of offshore shale gas, a figure the Times and Wall Street Journal are attributing to the British Geological Survey (BGS). But when we asked BGS, it told us it doesn't recognise the estimate, or think that much gas will be recoverable. So what's going on?  MORE