rjpayne@lemmy.ca to Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 2 days agoFactcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas - Carbon Briefwww.carbonbrief.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareThe Infinite Nematode@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSummary: 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.”
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.”