North Sea oil platform [image credit: matchtech.com]

Opponents say the UK should be cutting fossil fuel production but ignore the reality of continuing demand, meaning imports would have to increase. All they do is whine about the climate and call for ever more part-time wind power, which isn’t a direct replacement anyway. The carbon capture announcement is a bit of a joke when heavily subsidised but supposedly ‘green’ Drax wood burners are the UK’s biggest emitters of CO2.
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Summary – from BBC News.

The government will issue hundreds of new oil and gas licences for the North Sea, Rishi Sunak confirms

The first will be issued this autumn – with at least 100 in the next round

“We’re choosing to power up Britain from Britain,” says Sunak

And he says even when the UK reaches net zero in 2050, it will still need oil and gas

But the SNP warns that while energy security is important, the UK needs to consider “the looming climate catastrophe”

And Oxfam Scotland says drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea is “short-sighted and selfish”

Downing Street also confirms millions of pounds for a new carbon capture scheme in north-east Scotland

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July 31, 2023 at 04:42AM