RISHI Sunak’s claims home-grown oil and gas is better for the environment have been exposed as 'false'.
But Sunak was comparing the practice to only the dirtiest form of imports, which campaigners have warned only"make up a fraction of our overall imports".Patrick Harvie: Fergus Ewing hasn’t come to terms with climate crisis
Statistics from the UK Government’s North Sea Transition Authority show that the average carbon intensity of UK gas production is “lower than the average carbon intensity of all sources of natural gas imported to the UK, except pipeline imports from Norway”. Tessa Khan, executive director of Uplift, said: “The claim that ‘homegrown’ gas is better for the environment than imports is false.
“Moreover, 70% of what’s left in the North Sea is oil, which definitely isn’t cleaner than the global average and the vast majority of which we export anyway. So the Government’s focus on LNG comparisons is a complete distraction.” He added: “I think it’s unlikely, given it’s a mature basin and the geology is well-known, that we’re suddenly going to have a situation where we are significantly growing production again.”Secretary, Neil Gray, has labelled Sunak’s decision to “max out” the North Sea as “extreme”.
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