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Submitted 9 months ago by Jho@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Jho@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Docus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Getting rid of the conservative party is up there too
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
So long as it’s understood that “we should buy less stuff” translates to “legislation reducing carbon dependent travel and mandating repairability” and not “if only everyone made the same decisions as me”.
The former has a measurable effect, while the latter is just something we do as individuals to help us feel better.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That also highlights the hidden cost of moving the materials to and from countries. Building and refining near the oil field will save a huge amount of travel costs, reduce the carbon footprint of the oil tanker fleet that moves the oil, and provide a huge number of jobs to the area.
But capitalism says it’s wasteful to provide locally when you can save pennies abroad. Whatever will this island nation do?
byroon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We need systemic change (which can only be effected by the government) not individual action (although we as individuals can still pressure the government to do this)
byroon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It was always clear this was going to be the result
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 months ago
voight@hexbear.net 9 months ago
🇳🇬: First time?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Rosebank field was given the green light in September and has the potential to produce 500m barrels of oil in its lifetime, which, when burned, would emit as much carbon dioxide as running 56 coal-fired power stations for a year.
The project has faced stiff resistance, with hundreds of climate scientists and academics and more than 200 organisations, from the Women’s Institute to Oxfam, joining tens of thousands of people across the UK in opposing it.
The Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who submitted the parliamentary question, said: “This government’s answer proves Rosebank is not about supplying the UK with oil and gas, it’s purely another gimmick designed to appeal to a section of the electorate which has no concern for either the future of the planet or their own children.
Government spokespeople have repeatedly defended the plan, saying it will “help us meet our energy needs, while also supporting UK jobs, generating tax revenues and attracting investment”.
Alexander Kirk, of the climate justice group Global Witness, said the government had finally admitted that drilling and exporting more “planet-wrecking, expensive fossil fuels will do nothing for the UK’s energy security”.
They added: “We will continue to back the UK’s oil and gas industry, which underpins our energy security, supports up to 200,000 jobs, and will provide around £50bn in tax revenue over the next five years – helping fund our transition to net zero.”
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Jho@feddit.uk 9 months ago
[deleted]frazorth@feddit.uk 9 months ago
If we burn more oil, then we can be net zero!
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Well that was blindingly obvious from the start.
If you give companies extraction licenses then they will obviously just sell what they extract on the open market, why did anyone think that anything else to the country was going to happen? It’s not like the licenses have any particular restrictions attached to them we knew that.
Biohazard@feddit.uk 9 months ago
The increased supply will reduce the global price which makes oil products cheaper to UK consumers.
idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Sorry buddy but the price of energy in the UK is no longer correlated with supply and demand and hasn’t been for at least two years now.
Biohazard@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Obviously it is. When oil prices are high, do petrol prices go down?
420stalin69@hexbear.net 9 months ago
It makes the already-wealthy owners of the extraction license wealthier and nothing more than that you boot sucking goon.
JillyB@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Theoretically, that would only reduce the price proportional to the amount of new production relative to existing world production. This does little to dampen market turbulence.
Biohazard@feddit.uk 9 months ago
True. Oil companies hold up the FTSE 100 so the government are pussies about demanding taxes
rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 9 months ago
What a total shock! I really thought Rishi was being honest when he said Rosebank would benefit young people, and I’m even more stunned that the King’s Speech wasn’t totally accurate. Wow!