By Paul Homewood
h/r Robin Guenier
Ignore the waffle about cutting bills and energy security, Starmer confirms he will ban all new North Sea exploration, although existing licences will be honoured.
Quite how this enhances our energy security is a mystery!
Labour will end new North Sea oil and gas exploration, but help communities profit from clean power projects, Sir Keir Starmer is to pledge.
Speaking in Edinburgh later the Labour leader will vow to “cut bills, create jobs and provide energy security”.
He will also say that a previously announced publicly-owned green energy company will be based in Scotland.
Sir Keir is under pressure from environmentalists and the oil industry over the scale and pace of change.
Climate campaigners have criticised the party for rowing back on a pledge to invest £28bn a year in green industries.
In England, planning rules which effectively ban new onshore wind farm developments will be scrapped if Labour wins the next election.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65945214
And once again the BBC repeat the outright lie about an effective ban onshore wind. In fact there are ten projects currently being constructed on the back of CfDs.
If the silly man is so concerned about “communities”, why will he abolish the right of local communities to decide whether they have a wind farm built next door?
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June 19, 2023 at 04:01AM
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