Rishi Sunak said it would make “absolutely no sense” for the U.K. not to take advantage of its domestic fossil fuel resources as he announced hundreds of new oil and gas drilling licences in the latest setback for climate activists. The Telegraph has more.
The Prime Minister said the new licences showed the Government’s commitment to backing the North Sea oil and gas industry and would help to make Britain more energy independent.
The decision to give the green light to new drilling operations is likely to prompt a backlash from climate change activists.
But Mr. Sunak said even with the 2050 net zero emissions drive a quarter of the U.K.’s energy demand will still be met by oil and gas by the middle of the century and it would be better for the environment if it was produced domestically.
Labour has proposed to ban new oil and gas licences but Mr. Sunak said granting the new contracts was “absolutely the right thing to do”.
Mr. Sunak was asked during an interview on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme on Monday morning how the new licences would enhance the UK’s chances of hitting the 2050 Net Zero target.
He replied: “Because even when we reach Net Zero in 2050 a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas and domestic gas production has about a quarter or a third of the carbon footprint of imported gas.
“So not only is it better for our energy security not to rely on foreign dictators for that energy, not only is it good for jobs, particularly Scottish jobs, it is actually better for the environment because there is no point in importing stuff from halfway around the world with two to three times the carbon footprint of the stuff we have got at home. That makes absolutely no sense.”
Mr. Sunak said importing energy from abroad meant the U.K. was the victim of global fluctuations in prices and domestic production would help to shelter people from big cost increases.
He said: “It is important that we increase homegrown sources of energy to improve our resilience but also that is good for Scottish in particular jobs in the U.K.
“It is good for tax revenue as well which funds our public services and given we are going to need energy from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future as we transition to Net Zero, it makes no sense not to use the resources that we have got here at home.”
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There are no doubt a good few old A340s in service with commercial services that don’t have their flaps fail to retract on their revenue-earning services.
I think the Luftwaffe needs to up its maintenance game somewhat.
Not with the budget they have.
“I think the Luftwaffe needs to up its maintenance game somewhat.”
Some of us might prefer that they didn’t.
Wir verenden Annalena!
Baerbock is infamous for her inability to use the correct polysyllabic words in German sentences. One of her famous wrong statements (from the election campaign) was Wir verenden Europa! What she obviously meant to say was Wir vollenden Europa! — we’ll finally turn the EU into what it should always have become, this being code language for We really want to get rid of the German nation state. (and preferably, also all others). The verb she used instead – verenden – means dying, usually of animals, due to old age or succumbing to injuries.
Germanys very own Kamala Harris
So what? Apart from the waste of money, what’s the problem?
I seem to remember that one of the reasons why Ursula Von der Leyen was moved on by Mutti from her role as defence minister was because she couldn’t keep Mutti’s Luftwaffe operated executive transport in the air long enough for Mutti to go anywhere. But the had very nice crèche facilities. It looks like nothing much has changed.
Yeah.. the German Defence Minister Von Der Liar.. the one who couldn’t keep the German army in boots.. says it all.. move her to the EU Commission where she can screw up everything good and proper.. job done..
Now, that’s a great story.
Well knock me down with a feather! Their loyalty to the cause will always be rewarded. *Behind a paywall but the ‘Esc’ trick worked*.
”Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer who became one face of the government Covid pandemic response, has taken a job as senior medical consultant at vaccine giant Moderna.
The move is likely to prompt fresh consideration of the “revolving door” for prominent government figures who move into business roles.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jonathan-van-tam-job-moderna-vaccine-b2395006.html
Or as they like to put it nowadays, “There are fears the move will only encourage the conspiracy theorists who say there is a revolving door…”
There is no shame involved with these dirty dirty lying po faced Barstewards ! I had him pegged as a complete sh1thouse with his regular televised public covid procrastinations ! Bought & Paid for duplicitous Chunt ! Where,s a lamppost when you need one
I can just imagine the ceremony if the “priceless cultural artefacts” were handed over.
1st aborigine “Pressies!”
Baerbock “There’s this”
1st aborigine “What is it?”
2nd aborigine “It’s a stick”
1st aborigine “Is it a stick, Baerbock”
Baerbock “Yes, but it’s a special kind of stick. When you give it away it comes back”
Slight caricature of Black Adder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTdnWLMLDA
I don’t deny the cultural value of the artefacts, which have their devotees on the antiques market.
But just imagine a contemporary parallel to the giving of gifts to long-serving missionaries bringing faith, or maybe education and medical care, in the nineteenth century.
“You teenage English volunteers have helped us so much here in [name developing country] by building us a school and showing us how to pipe fresh water from the well you dug. We have little, but would like to thank you by giving in return some of the locally woven fabric you see every day in our clothing to remember us by.”
“No, we can’t possibly accept that, because it is cultural appropriation. But maybe a couple of those imported Swiss Army knives?”
Or, being naive teenagers, perhaps they’d accept, only to be castigated by the sending organisation, whose CEO has to take a special flight and Land Rover trip to return the roll of cloth.
Couldn’t she have posted the sticks?
Isn’t she the innumerate politician who referred to an about face as a 360 degree turn?
Yes.
Another famous one would be that she got once trapped in a discussion about EV batteries and lenghtyly blathered about these containing kobold. No one can really tell if she confused this with cobalt or possibly actually believes it. She isn’t very technical. She also once referred to eastern Ukraine as Ostkokaine — eastern cocaine.
Sorry to hear she has so much trouble with her flaps
I think we all know full well what the purpose of the trip was: a nice little holiday, courtesy of German taxpayers.
Spot on..
Its a toss-up between what dies first.. Germany or its politicians.. the only way Germany won’t is if its present day politicians do.. excluding the AFD of course..