The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
07.03.2026 11:35
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The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
This is a dreadful proposal that will erode trust and transparency in politics even further.
Of course staff will prefer maximum privacy but this has to be balanced against the public's right to know which interests are influencing the people representing them.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Damn, those fossil fuels are looking pretty intermittent
Yep- and wind is already pushing more expensive gas plants off the grid. Prices would have been 1/3 higher in 2024 without wind
eciu.net/analysis/rep...
If I were an industry extracting rents from fossil fuel trade disruption, I, too, would be pretty keen to lift a windfall tax right now.
Happily, this article has been updated to include the fact the Amber Rudd advises Equinor, the company that stands to make billions if Rosebank goes ahead. 💪
Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵
Damn, those fossil fuels are looking pretty intermittent
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Equinor don't publish the membership of their International Advisory Group - that could get awkward - so I can't tell if Amber is still Chair. The most recent reference I can find that names her as Chair is from 2024. But I hope the FT asked her - and it's odd to have not mentioned her role at all.
One of the most prominent names on the letter is Amber Rudd. Amber Rudd who described herself as a long admirer of Equinor, as she accepted a (paid) role as Chair of their International Advisory Group in 2020.
"As well as calling to reverse the licences and the windfall tax, the former ministers also want the government to give Equinor and Shell permission to develop two giant new oil and gasfields, Rosebank and Jackdaw. "
That's interesting..
www.ft.com/content/2d18...
is your brother dark side martin lewis
ah but have you considered
It would need renaming - it's so unrecognisable as jerk chicken. Maybe Jerk Supreme?
Great piece
This is how the Cure's Robert Smith imagined life to be in the mid-2020s - when he was asked by Smash Hits magazine in 1983...
"More boring. More people around. It will be battery people. World will be really awful. I'd like it to be 95F all the time."
BPA is well known to absorb through skin. It's a problem for cashiers, for example, because of its presence in the type of paper used to make receipts.
release the crosstabs by age!!
this is a chicken in egg situation..
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gotta hand it...
Coming round to Nadine Dorries thought - she was so real for this
This piece is as good as everyone's saying. It's striking how willing this bonehead is to outsource all ethical judgement to the tiktok algorithm. Just a humble participant in the market, responding to the incentives on offer.
if james bond was an urban young professional his gadgets would probably be a lost mary thats actually a gun, invisibilty birkenstocks and a jar of kimchi that irreversibly damages your gut microbiome .....
next level pedantry G
I know we all focus on geopolitical issues when considering how dependent Europe is on US LNG, but probably wise to acknowledge that when it gets really cold, gas / LNG supply becomes quite insecure on an infrastructure basis.
US gas to LNG dropped 30% as soon as things started icing up.
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