RE: Forward Thinking24 Nov 2023 16:24
Dusterinmong " Sorry Starmer has said all licences to be honoured that are issued before he is elected.
From: 28TH MAY 2023
THE PRESS & JOURNAL
"Keir Starmer is preparing to block new oil and gas exploration under a Labour government, according to reports branded “pie in the sky” by a north-east business figure.
The row follows claims in the Sunday Times that the UK Labour leader will set out the plan in his net-zero energy policy in Scotland next month.
Labour is said to be considering only borrowing to invest in green enterprises through an energy policy it hopes will create up to half a million jobs in renewables.
Around 50,000 of those jobs would be in Scotland.
Labour would continue to use existing oil and gas wells over the coming decades.
But the suggestion of stopping new exploration was criticised by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce policy director Ryan Crighton.
He said the industry supporters more than 200,000 jobs and generates £15 billion for the Treasury.
“Pie in the sky strategy drawn up with zero engagement with the industry, or the region, that has been powering the UK for 50 years,” he added.
“But Labour would continue to use existing oil and gas wells over the coming decades and manage them sustainably as we transform the UK into a clean energy superpower.”
The implication is that it is NEW EXPLORATION licences that will be blocked - not something like the GBA project that will be a very long way into the project even if a successful FDP had not been achieved by the time a new Labour government took power.
And Starmer has accepted that oil has a place in his 'green energy' transition
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