The PM confirms 100 new licences ahead of a visit to Scotland, but opponents say the UK should be cutting fossil fuel production.
    • @Nolegjoe
      -7•2 years ago

      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.

      • Tenebris Nox
        20•2 years ago

        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.

        • yip-bonk
          11•2 years ago

          This. We’re now past “well we have to kill the planet, because economy”, etc. Renewables, electric cars. Go.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•2 years ago

        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.

      • ThatIdiotMonro
        8•2 years ago

        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?

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        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

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 years ago

    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

    • @[email protected]English
      19•2 years ago

      Nah, he’s apathetic and completely on the side of the capital class. These choices haven’t been about lack of knowledge for decades.

      • @dbaner
        3•2 years ago

        He’s also desperate to keep his job. And the only thing that won them any votes in the recent bi-elections was their opposition to the low emission legislation in London

        • @dbaner
          3•2 years ago

          It’s extreme self centered short termism

    • @guriinii
      3•2 years ago

      This guy is dumb greedy.

  • @doppelgangmember
    2•2 years ago

    Apparently we only have 47 years of oil supplies left anyway everyone! -_-