The Prime Minister will use tomorrow’s King’s Speech to unveil a controversial new policy to award oil production licences on an annual basis.
Humza Yousaf has warned Rishi Sunak’s new plan to award oil and gas licences every year “flies in the face” of the country’s climate goals.
And Conservative minister Claire Coutinho claimed the move would bolster Britain’s energy security. But she was slated by eco charities and political rivals after admitting the policy wouldn’t reduce people’s fuel bills at home. "What the UK Government has announced over the past few weeks and months will only slow down that just transition, which won't help the UK and certainly won't help the planet."
The licensing rounds would only take place if the UK was forecast to import more oil and gas than produced at home, and if the carbon emissions associated with domestic gas production were lower than the equivalent emissions from imports. Tessa Khan, of anti-fossil fuels group Uplift, said the move was “political posturing”, adding: "More North Sea licensing will do vanishingly little for the UK’s energy security and nothing for our unaffordable energy bills.
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