The UK must take decisive action to ensure energy security by reviving North Sea oil and gas exploration, a policy that will not only support domestic energy production but also reduce our dependence on foreign energy supplies. In an increasingly volatile world, the ability to rely on homegrown resources is more vital than ever.
However, Labour’s Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is banning North Sea oil and gas licences, this stance is not only economically reckless but also environmentally misguided. Importing energy from countries like Russia and China is far more damaging to the planet, given the emissions generated by transporting fuels over thousands of miles. By contrast, tapping into our own reserves allows the UK to produce cleaner, locally sourced energy while reducing our carbon footprint.
Stopping North Sea exploration, as Miliband and Labour are doing, will only force the UK into further reliance on costly imports from authoritarian regimes. Instead, we should prioritise energy resilience by using the resources right beneath our feet, ensuring the UK remains strong, self-sufficient, and competitive on the global stage.
Also once we remove this government we should abolish all of Ed Millibands constructs. Solar farms should be removed and turned back to agriculture. The panels should be mounted on homes and other buildings, either rented out or donated and any power generated sold to the national grid.
Totally agree. I cannot understand why the current government have said that Britain could become a net zero superpower. Our green and pleasant land is going to be a landscape of wind turbines and solar panels, which will not produce enough power for the country and even less chance of doing so when every motor vehicle and business has to use green energy. It is fundamentally flawed from the onset. Plus when it is windy there is generally cloud cover in the UK, so no sun, and when its too windy the wind turbines cannot operate.
The UK being a green energy superpower is nothing more then leftist propaganda. Wind turbines being produced by China, EV batteries supplied by China. The carbon emissions being produced in manufacturing and shipping should be taken into account when calculating be zero targets.
Would It be possible to remove all wind farms and recycle the Steel for construction purposes? They’re an absolute eye saw but also an absolute con job!
They kill the birds and our wild life that are part of natures circle and then I also heard from president Trump, that makes complete sense was that the wind farms in the ocean create sound waves etc and the sea life like whales go crazy and end up dead washing up on shores in the US weekly and I assume similar effects will happen for all sea life either kill them or drive them away from coastlines.
So considering the windmills are an environmental invention yet the sea life suffers? I will go further to say the real reason for the windmills is too clear out our fishing areas so we no longer have access to our healthy & nutritious food supply source from the ocean while in parallel wanting to cut carbon emissions by destroying our agriculture and our cattle that’s our healthiest source of food and which both carry the biggest burden to feed our people.
I don’t like to say it but all these ideas together look like the creation of a future man made famine to me sold to us as saving the planet. We’ll thank China for their steel and reuse it for our construction business and military!
I agree that there is a plot for a man made famine. The footage that made me start thinking that was this video where a man was describing what the Gov was willing to pay him to lay on his fields.
It was something along the lines of them paying him triple for putting “wild seed” over his field instead of crops, to be for the birds and the bees instead of me and you.
Sickening stuff there was a farmer at a reform meeting somewhere and he was being offered thousands not to grow crops in his fields like thousands more than what they would make by just growing crops similar with the Camelot castle hotel being offered tonnes to house migrants but don’t know who’s paying for it all ? The TAX PAYER!! Us!! This is where Elon’s comments yesterday a CPAC have opened my eyes a bit to the left actually being incredibly weak but plundering the pockets of the tax payers to enforce their agendas on us while we pay for it.
Yes, the left has gone unchecked for too long, and there admittedly is fault on our side, as well as the silent majority for not being investigative enough, or simply just asking “Why?”, but this is why we truly need a radical shift.
The left has kept acclimatising the entire journey, that they have not realised that where they sit now is what would have caused more than outrage if it happened a hundred years ago in Britain.
They’ve designed us perfectly in their vision through how the teach us throughout the education system and society in general, it’s just about following orders and complying with what the teacher (master) wants of you and if you don’t conform then punishment from detention too fine and prison, everybody has become robots where they’re no longer thinking for themselves or questioning what’s going on around them or having alternative views that aren’t shut down because it doesn’t conform to what the “norm” agenda that we must follow because it’s been beaten out of us since school, that creative minds that think differently are bad, the more they create the model of us all thinking the same thing is how they complete their control program of our minds.
It is a good thing we are alive and awake to this now, yet sadly the way we get the sleepy/reluctant people awake is when the become a victim of this and then join our side.
I have some hope, as yes we got Trump in, and JD Vance is also going to help, but we must move as Brits now too, we mustn’t delay.
There are different ways to also see this, such as:
-They will be similar to how Marine Le Pen is, holding the Gov at ransom as they further garner more support.
-Be a fierce opposition.
-The CDU is possibly forced to party with them.
Many different things, may not win outright but people will certainly do their best for them.
Fully agree. This is critical, and you’re right to emphasise the environmental positives of such a policy. I would go further and add explicit commitments to pursuing cleaner energy as and when it becomes more viable.
Net Zero as currently envisaged is poorly thought out and unworkable, but it’s important we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Cleaner and more sustainable practices are desirable, and signalling this clearly is vital to rebut inevitable criticisms from the left.
We need a complete end of the climate / net zero scam. It is harming our nation and driving up energy bills. We must start producing oil & gas in the North Sea. We need to fast track North Sea oil & gas licenses.
Absolutely agree and much of the common sense written here can also be applied to our nations industrial capabilities. For example the insanity of closing our steel mills only to import from china.
While I do think that there is merit to solar and wind power, we must realistically consider the reliability such projects, the skills needed and location.
We must first use the resources beneath us.
Off shore wind farms is a good idea, not on agricultural land and only if we have the right infrastructure for storing that energy and training for the skills needed through apprenticeships.
The same for solar panels but utilising industrial and retail roof spaces as opposed to putting the onus on to homeowners and individuals.
You might be familiar with Bjorn Lomborg’s observations and arguments about how we should cope with climate change - not by a costly and damaging over-reaction, but by adaption as and when that’s needed while allowing innovation to come up with solutions that will create their own markets simply by being viable solutions that people will want to adopt . Bjorn’s view strikes me as being far more rational and fact-based.
Not only that but they shame those of us who think differently and attempt to smear us as far right extremists, before cancelling us. There is a herd mentality and they understand very well how to manipulate us using psychology, just as they did during Covid lockdowns.
Thank you. No, I wasn’t aware of Lomborg, but I agree completely — at least with your summary. Truly viable improvements will be taken up naturally. Anything else will ultimately either destroy businesses, or drive them abroad more permissive jurisdictions.
That last part is of course, I suspect, a feature and not a bug of Net Zero policy.
As with much legislation, if there is a need for domestic production, government should permit it, set the minimum requirements, eg environmental in this case, then leave industry to do the job efficiently and productively. Bear in mind that North Sea oil is very expensive, and china is reducing its demand for oil fast, so prices are likely to come down. it may not be economic to drill here, but government should get out of the way, and specifically encourage British industry, so the profits remain in the UK
