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    Summary:

    FALSE: ‘Reopening the North Sea would lower bills’

    MISLEADING: ‘Energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2’

    FALSE: ‘Britain is a resource-rich nation that has chosen dependency’

    FALSE: North Sea is ‘best way to protect us from volatility and provide energy security’

    MISLEADING: ‘The head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill’

    FALSE: ‘The UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses’

    MISLEADING: ‘With new North Sea licences would come thousands of jobs’

    MISLEADING: North Sea drilling ‘would secure a rush of revenue into the Treasury’

    FALSE: Ed Miliband is an ‘anti-North Sea’ climate change ‘fanatic’

    FALSE: ‘We share the same basin with Norway…there is not a geological difference.”