Sunak unveils expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
Sunak unveils expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
The PM confirms 100 new licences ahead of a visit to Scotland, but opponents say the UK should be cutting fossil fuel production.
Exactly what the world needs right now. More CO2 emissions.
The planets fucked.
Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so. The options are to ship it in from the middle east, US, or Russia. Or, we can source it ourselves from the North Sea. Getting it ourselves will actually have less CO2 emissions as we won't be shipping it halfway across the planet.
Not if the country went on "war footing" about the climate catastrophe and took measures to ensure that budgets were redirected into eco-investments (eg. stop spending £3 billion a year on the maintenance of 50 trident missiles). Radical investments in things like tidal power, completely free public transport etc. Where there's a will there's a way.
Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so.
Tbh who’s fault is that. There was plenty of warning and time for the UK to decarbonise. She chose not to.
Except, how long will it take for this expansio to come onstream, and how expensive in terms of CO2 emissions will the infrastructure manufacturing be?
That is assuming that by extracting it ourselves we are at least equally reducing how much is being extracted elsewhere…. Which obviously isn’t the case. This will take carbon that’s currently trapped under the ground and release it into the atmosphere.
They are killing us for profit & votes
We’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas! Might as well keep raw dogging the planet to make sure my rich friends stay rich.
It’s only the poor who suffer from climate change anyway.
/s
This guy is dumb
Nah, he’s apathetic and completely on the side of the capital class. These choices haven’t been about lack of knowledge for decades.
This guy is
dumbgreedy.
Apparently we only have 47 years of oil supplies left anyway everyone! -_-