Rishi Sunak backs plans for new UK oil and gas exploration.


Rishi Sunak backs plans for new UK oil and gas exploration

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"Everybody sensible recognises that we will need those fossil fuels as part of the transition to net zero," Sunak argued.

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The main opposition Labour party, well ahead in the polls, said earlier this year it will not issue any new North Sea drilling licences if it regains power after more than a decade in opposition. "I think it makes absolutely no sense, as the Labour Party is suggesting, to ban North Sea oil and gas," Sunak said.

By AFP
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed plans for new fossil fuel drilling off Britain's coast, saying in a Sunday newspaper interview he would be "pragmatic and proportionate" about reaching net zero.

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His government is expected to approve the development of Rosebank, near Scotland's Shetland Isles -- believed to be the UK's largest undeveloped oil and gas field -- as well as other sites in the nearby North Sea imminently.

The prospect has infuriated environmental campaigners, who argue that stopping all new fossil fuel exploitation is essential if Britain is to decarbonise by mid-century.

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