News Round-Up
9 July 2025
Why I Might Vote Tory for the First Time
9 July 2025
by Nick Dixon
A judge has blocked Britain's two biggest offshore oil and gas developments from producing any fossil fuels by quashing their production permits over climate change concerns.
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
BP is to cut nearly 8,000 jobs in the face of falling profits and rising shareholder concern over its green energy policies as pressure from Net Zero policies continues to bite.
Donald Trump has told Keir Starmer to "open up" the North Sea and "get rid of windmills", as the President-elect attacked the U.K. Government’s Net Zero energy policy.
One of the North Sea’s biggest oil field developments is in jeopardy after developers put the project on hold following a crackdown by Ed Miliband.
Lego has said it will take the hit and pay up to 60% over the odds to buy lower-petroleum plastic in a race to remove fossil fuels from its bricks. It won't affect prices, they say. But for how long?
Britain is leading the world on Net Zero, but no one is following, says Jeremy Warner. In China and the developing world Net Zero targets appear to mean nothing at all beyond their usefulness in undermining the West.
Ed Miliband is reportedly set to end new drilling in the North Sea and the cost of Net Zero is projected to run into the hundreds of billions. The scene is being set for the failures that could bring down the Government.
Ed Miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea – overruling his own officials and risking triggering a wave of legal action.
BP has put all new offshore wind projects on pause as the oil company’s new Chief Executive seeks to focus more heavily on fossil fuels.
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