Despite Burnham’s pledge to stick with the 2024 manifesto pledge and not expand North Sea drilling, senior figures within Burnham’s government expect the new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh to approve the new Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw gas field for private development soon.
One senior UK official said the approach to the North Sea had become less “dogmatic” since the exit of Ed Miliband from the energy department to become foreign secretary. “The Treasury was always trying to get Ed to give ground on things but Keir Starmer didn’t want to take him on”
This may be seen as controversial due to the recent heatwave and the subsequent wildfires and droughts.
TactileTom on
This is a dumb framing, extracting our own gas and oil is less carbon intensive than importing from abroad.
Especially at a time of global shortage, doing anything else is just virtue signalling
SuperblackHunter on
If the result is better PR and people no longer hamming him for it as an issue that solves all then so be it. I like to think people on here know the north sea is inconsequential in what it provides and aware drilling is just breaking principle
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Despite Burnham’s pledge to stick with the 2024 manifesto pledge and not expand North Sea drilling, senior figures within Burnham’s government expect the new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh to approve the new Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw gas field for private development soon.
One senior UK official said the approach to the North Sea had become less “dogmatic” since the exit of Ed Miliband from the energy department to become foreign secretary. “The Treasury was always trying to get Ed to give ground on things but Keir Starmer didn’t want to take him on”
This may be seen as controversial due to the recent heatwave and the subsequent wildfires and droughts.
This is a dumb framing, extracting our own gas and oil is less carbon intensive than importing from abroad.
Especially at a time of global shortage, doing anything else is just virtue signalling
If the result is better PR and people no longer hamming him for it as an issue that solves all then so be it. I like to think people on here know the north sea is inconsequential in what it provides and aware drilling is just breaking principle
Id rather Andy preforming than Farage though