“Decommissioning costs for drilling platforms are also a major factor: taxpayers are likely to be asked for £12bn as the North Sea’s infrastructure is dismantled.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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There must be fewer and fewer people who can remember this. I don't think my children, in their 30s, have ever seen a coal cart. I remember the sight, sound and smell of the coal coal tipping into the coal bunker.

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Well, he’s right in the sense there’d be economic growth - 0.05% according to UK govt’s impact assessment. Not much Same assessment also said the cost-benefit analysis, accounting for pollution, health impacts of noise etc would be negative by tens of billions of ££ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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“The prospect of drilling for oil or gas on the Great Barrier Reef would be considered absolute madness today, but that is exactly the decision before the government: save Scott Reef or risk its destruction at the hands of a gas corporation.” - @greenpeaceap.bsky.social

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“There’s no future in new gas projects. Our future is in secure homegrown renewable energy, green industry and exports, where communities and places like Scott Reef are protected — there’s no future in dirty gas shipped offshore."

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