Sunak unveils expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News - eviltoast
The PM confirms 100 new licences ahead of a visit to Scotland, but opponents say the UK should be cutting fossil fuel production.
  • Badtouchspez@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    Exactly what the world needs right now. More CO2 emissions.

    The planets fucked.

    • Nolegjoe@lemmy.world
      413·
      1 year ago

      Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so. The options are to ship it in from the middle east, US, or Russia. Or, we can source it ourselves from the North Sea. Getting it ourselves will actually have less CO2 emissions as we won’t be shipping it halfway across the planet.

      • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
        20·
        1 year ago

        Not if the country went on “war footing” about the climate catastrophe and took measures to ensure that budgets were redirected into eco-investments (eg. stop spending £3 billion a year on the maintenance of 50 trident missiles). Radical investments in things like tidal power, completely free public transport etc. Where there’s a will there’s a way.

        • yip-bonk@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          This. We’re now past “well we have to kill the planet, because economy”, etc. Renewables, electric cars. Go.

      • Badtouchspez@lemm.eeEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so.

        Tbh who’s fault is that. There was plenty of warning and time for the UK to decarbonise. She chose not to.

      • ThatIdiotMonro@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        Except, how long will it take for this expansio to come onstream, and how expensive in terms of CO2 emissions will the infrastructure manufacturing be?

      • Ruchbah@feddit.uk
        1·
        1 year ago

        That is assuming that by extracting it ourselves we are at least equally reducing how much is being extracted elsewhere…. Which obviously isn’t the case. This will take carbon that’s currently trapped under the ground and release it into the atmosphere.

        They are killing us for profit & votes

  • Radium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    We’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas! Might as well keep raw dogging the planet to make sure my rich friends stay rich.

    It’s only the poor who suffer from climate change anyway.

    /s