Chris Cragg's Energy and Environment Essays
Dr Chris Cragg
Chris Cragg has been writing about energy issues for over 40 years, starting in the early 1980s. With a doctorate from Oxford, he worked for FT Energy for 14 years and contributed to many magazines and journals on the subject.
While working for the FT, he won the International Association of Energy Economists Journalism Award in 1987 and wrote an extensive report on the future of motor vehicles. He was one of the first western journalists to go inside the ruins of Chernobyl and has been inside more nukes than he cares to remember.
Leaving the FT Group, he was employed by BP under Lord Browne for four years, which took him from Arctic Canada, via Algeria to the remoter parts of Indonesia. Thereafter, he advised the Nigerian Senate on reducing oil pollution in the Niger delta and subsequently wrote a lengthy report on the situation in Venezuela, after President Chavez took over.
Living partly in the Philippines, he is no stranger to climate change, but his first love is the Arctic, where he first went as a boatman at the age of 17…
“For every 100 articles about climate change, maybe ten are about what can be done about it. We are all too familiar with the dangers to ourselves, to wildlife and the planet. But it is not remotely good enough to endlessly repeat these dangers. We have to wean ourselves off the fossil fuels that currently create most of our warmth, light and motive power and effectively run our economies. There is much to be done and there are a multitude of good ideas out there. But most are on far too small a scale to make much difference yet. The aim of these essays is to show the size of the problem and encourage those who are doing something about it.”