Domestic UK oil and gas is cleaner than imports
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Buried in this article about UK oil and gas is this key quote:
“domestic oil and gas is four times cleaner than imported oil and gas.”
Yet many in the UK refuse to listen, and screech loudly, demanding ‘no new oil & gas in the North Sea’.
Also, energy security is national security.
●》If a government deliberately dismantles and deconstructs its own energy security, then the government in fact dismantles and deconstructs its own national security.
Similar to borders of any country.
●●●》If a government deliberately dismantles and deconstructs its own border security, then the government in fact dismantles and deconstructs its own national security.
Just my opinion; as always, you are free to disagree.
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“The Chancellor has hit back at the former net zero tsar after he quit the Conservatives over the Government’s decision to increase domestic oil and gas drilling.
Jeremy Hunt said he “profoundly” disagrees with Chris Skidmore’s reasons for resigning as an MP, with the former energy minister’s exit due to trigger another challenging by-election for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
… Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the MP for Kingswood in South Gloucestershire said he could not vote for legislation that “clearly promotes the production of new oil and gas” and would show the UK is “rowing ever further back from its climate commitments”.
But the Chancellor said Mr Skidmore’s stance on new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea was “wrong”.
… “The independent panel for climate change (the Climate Change Committee) that we have in this country are very clear that even when we reach net zero in 2050, we will still get a significant proportion of our energy from fossil fuels.
●》“And domestic oil and gas is four times cleaner than imported oil and gas.”
●》Mr Hunt said international events showed the need for domestic energy security.
“The point is, I think he is wrong on North Sea oil and gas,” the senior Tory continued.
“When you have the problems in the Red Sea (with international cargo ships being attacked by Iran-backed Houthi rebels), it is very important for energy security that we have domestic sources of that kind of energy as we go into transition.” …