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Fossil Fuel Drilling Licensing to be Mandatory – But No Sign of Measures to Stop Ulez-Style Anti-Car Schemes

by Will Jones
7 November 2023 5:30 PM

In the King’s Speech today the Government confirmed plans for new legislation to deliver annual oil and gas licensing rounds, but other Net Zero-dilution bills were missing, including laws to restrain local authorities from introducing anti-car schemes like Ulez. Business Green has more.

The Government today used its final King’s Speech before the next election to confirm plans for new legislation to deliver annual oil and gas licensing rounds and accelerate grid connections for clean energy projects.

As had been widely trailed, the speech set out plans for a new Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill that would mandate the North Sea Transition Authority to undertake new oil and licensing rounds on an annual basis.

But at the same time it also reiterated Number 10’s commitment to meeting the U.K.’s Net Zero targets and boosting investment in renewables projects.

In his first opening of Parliament as monarch, King Charles said: “Legislation will be introduced to strengthen the United Kingdom’s energy security and reduce reliance on volatile international energy markets and hostile regimes.

“This bill will support future licensing of new oil and gas fields helping the country to transition to net zero by 2050 without adding undue burdens on households.

“Alongside this my ministers will seek to attract record levels of investment in renewable energy sources and reform grid connection, building on the U.K.’s track record of decarbonising faster than other G7 economies.”

The speech also promised new legislation to support the roll out of emerging technologies such as driverless cars and machine learning, highlighted the government’s plans for new rail connections in northern England, and underscored Ministers’ commitment to delivering new trade deals with emerging economies.

King Charles, who is expected to attend this year’s COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai next month, said the Government “will continue to lead action on tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, support developing countries with their energy transition and hold other countries to their environmental commitments”.

However, previously mooted proposals for new legislation to scrap nutrient neutrality rules for housing developers and limit local authorities’ ability to introduce 20mph speed limits and ultra-low emission zones were absent from the speech.

Worth reading in full.

The Government talks the talk when topics like Ulez expansion are in the news, but the reality is it’s still captive to green groupthink and largely fails to follow through with the concrete measures needed to stop the headlong green rush to mass impoverishment.

Tags: Climate AlarmismFossil fuelsGasNet ZeroNorth Sea OilOilULEZWar on Motorists

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

“largely fails to follow through with the concrete measures needed to stop the headlong green rush to mass impoverishment.”

It seems more realistic that is the policy rather than a failure of policy. Why are they captive to green groupthink?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

This Chuckles fella is a bloody insult to the British people and is nothing but a traitor. Reading a WEF manuscript as if he gives a F. about Britain and it’s people. He’s still a German and look what they offered the world in 1933.

I am sure he’ll be looking forward to a bit of sun and sand later this month and a good catch-up with Uncle Klaus.

If we somehow win this war he’s got to be one of the first to go.

Despicable.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Why has everybody apparently forgotten that he was a good friend of Jimmy Savile?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Exactly.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Yes….. Andrew got hung out to dry for being friends with Epstein. Charlie-boy get’s a free pass for consorting with Saville.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

One cannot over estimate the influence on Brian of Sir Laurens van der Post, a serial liar, adulterer and proven paedophile (fathering a child by a 14 year old girl in his charge). .
Decades ago, Private Eye remorselessly lampooned Brian for his association with VdP the great imposter, but like water off a duck’s back, Brian continues to plough his own wonky eco-furrow.

Last edited 1 year ago by 10navigator
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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

Close relationships with multiple paedophiles and his security fails to detect anything of concern.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

How strange 🤔

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

If a girl is old enough to give birth the man who impregnates her can’t , for that reason alone, be a paedophile.

Ephebophile, yes.

Don’t forget that Jerry Lee Lewis’ marriage was legal.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Currently 4 morons who have failed so badly in life that they can’t afford the £5 to explain why I’m wrong about the meaning of “paedophile”.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

A girl of 5 yrs and 7 months gave birth. By your reasoning her ‘impregnator’ wasn’t a paedophile. I suggest it’s your reasoning that’s moronic.
Whilst you are technically correct, I would suggest morally (particularly if you’re the parent of a young daughter) a different view may prevail.
Lewis married his 13yr old first cousin once removed when he was in his twenties. Hardly a ringing endorsement for the rectitude of such an arrangement.
Hebephilia—“strong persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically 11-14. It differs from paedophilia where the sexual interest is in pre-pubescent children.”
So that’s alright then.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

“Whilst you are technically correct”

So I’m right.

We are programmed to be attracted to young physically mature females because they are most likely to give us healthy children.

The idea that if you’re attracted to a girl on her 16th birthday that’s fine, but if you were attracted to her the day before you’re a perv is so laughable that only an imbecile – which you clearly are – could support it.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

Eactly what is it about “by that reason alone” you don’t understand?

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

Meanwhile tax and regulations make YK oil extraction difficult to justify business wise and fracking is impossible.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

On the GB News this morning I see endless talk of the cost of living and foodbank crisis. There was not one mention of the cost of energy in all of this. Availability and cost of energy is directly tied to welfare, standard of living and even life expectancy.————– Dear Eamon Holmes, you are ok with the little tittle tattle stories in the morning shows but please leave serious discussions to other presenters who maybe know what they are talking about mate.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/07/wales-where-agenda-2030-is-already-a-reality/

Look at this. Perhaps DS Editorial could investigate further.

Has anybody come across “aural diversity?” No, me neither. Anyway it’s going to feature in the lives of the Welsh. Quite possibly this is just an intro to abolishing the world acclaimed Male Voice Choirs. Well, you can’t have a load of white blokes banging out jingoistic nonsense so hair raising that it stirs the blood and raises their battle cries and goes on to cutting down the likes of Drakeford and Co.

Some of us on here know things are bad, judging by this they have barely started.

“Climate Change minister Julie James has said:

This will put the onus on Welsh Government to make policies that not only tackle unwanted noise, but also protect sounds that matter to people, like the relaxing calls of birdsong and nature or the welcoming hum of a vibrant town centre”.

I bet DS members are missing “the welcoming hum of a vibrant town centre”.

Some will probably remember vibrant hums just before March 2020.

All this coming our way shortly.

So kind.

Last edited 1 year ago by huxleypiggles
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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

So does the the ” hum of multiple vibrant wind farms ” such as may be heard in the Welsh Govt’s designated TAN8 area on the Denbigh moors count as ” unwanted noise “ or ” welcoming noise “ to Julie ? if she ever went there, the locals would be pleased to explain which it is.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Much appreciated. 👍

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://philipmcmillan.substack.com/p/heart-failure-epidemic-is-just-starting

This substack article suggests that heart failure is going to be on the increase. Pretty much as some of us expected.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

You get the usual spiting fury from the pretend to save the planet people whenever they think the UK might drill for anything. Yesterday on GB news one of those self righteous prats did just that on Mogg on GB News. He insisted millions will die because of coal oil and gas. ———-NOPE. Millions will die and are dying WITHOUT coal oil and gas. In the third world right now (not 100 years from now) about one billion people live without electricity. They die young from preventable disease and after a short life of back breaking labour and complete idiots like that imbecile on the Mogg show would keep them in that state of misery because of their irrational fear of a climate crisis for which no evidence exists. The poorest in this country are suffering NOW of energy poverty from the huge rises in energy prices caused by spending billions on turbines and smart meters and the drive to lower CO2 emissions all paid for by the consumers of energy. ——But the idiot on Mogg said we should not be using fossil fuels at all and instead renewables. These people say these things because they have no clue how energy works. Fossil fuels are FULL TIME ENERGY. They provide energy 24 hours a day everyday. Renewables are PART TIME ENERGY that cannot provide base load. There are 21 million gas boilers in the UK and brainwashed dreamers who only see their own ideology and nothing else would try to be rid of them by next Tuesday if they had their way. We cannot have energy policy dictated to us by braindead eco marxists. ——There are enough of those in government already.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Seconded.

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Phil Warner
Phil Warner
1 year ago

The foolish Kings of time have all had their particular axe to grind. From their treatment for being gay or, being born deformed, to being pious. King Charles has the Great Reset and all it includes. Is he the biggest fool of them all?

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

You really don’t get it folks.
Sunak understands driverless busses will change everything, result in a Tory landslide in 24. Get with the programme.
All this banging on about secure borders, hordes of military age men in 4* accommodation, energy security, indoctrinating your 4 year old in homosexual techniques, unprecedented levels of taxation- that’s all for the birds.
Trust him, he smiles a lot.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

The tories currently are a “driverless bus”.

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