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    Chef der Windindustrie drängt Ed Miliband, die Bohrungen in der Nordsee wieder aufzunehmen – RenewableUK-Chef sagt, es sei „völlig sinnvoll“, heimisches Öl und Gas zu unterstützen


    Chef der Windindustrie drängt Ed Miliband, die Bohrungen in der Nordsee wieder aufzunehmen – RenewableUK-Chef sagt, es sei „völlig sinnvoll“, heimisches Öl und Gas zu unterstützen

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/16/wind-industry-urges-miliband-restart-north-sea-drilling/

    Von JB_UK

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    1. JB_UK on

      The UK has an ongoing demand for gas, for electricity backup, for fertilisers and other chemicals, for industrial heat, and also for domestic heat, given how long it will take to radically improve insulation and to replace boilers with heat pumps.

      That demand is reducing but will still be substantial over the next ten or twenty years. See this from the FT:

      https://x.com/tejparikh90/status/2033464182159352219

      The choice is not whether we consume the gas, but whether we produce the gas domestically, import the gas and consume it, or kill off our industries and then import finished products that has the gas consumption embedded.

      Importing gas means we give up tens of billions in tax revenue and jobs, let alone the jobs in industries like chemicals which are downstream of that.

      Also, imported LNG emits almost 20% more carbon than North Sea gas, again, from the FT:

      https://x.com/tejparikh90/status/2033464184982110652

    2. Caesar171 on

      It makes sense, use the natural resources we have to lower costs and invest in cheaper alternatives with the savings. I really quite like Ed but I feel like he can be a bit of a zealot at times regarding this.

    4. Dadskitchen on

      Trump told us this months ago, I kinda hate to admit but he was on point and actually I think trying to covertly tell us he was gonna fuck up world oil supplies

    5. Zealousideal_Trip661 on

      But, oil and gas is not pumped, piped, or shipped to the country that extracts it. Oil and gas are sold on the international market so more North Sea production would have negligible impact on UK prices and UK energy security.

    7. BalianofReddit on

      We should be doing everything possible to secure our energy independence through every likely type of shock

      That means a broad mixture until we can reliably generate a significant multiple of our peak demand with a decentralised green energy grid with the ability to store a significant multiple of the weekly demand in batteries or hydrocarbons storage.

    8. Plastic-Impress8616 on

      been saying this for years.

      were trying to drive a car while the engine is still being built.

      we still need oil. its going to take well over a half a century to move to green energy’s and our demand isn’t going to drop.

      we need to be striving for net 0% without jumping the gun. cutting all domestic oil is doing that, evident by the fact we are importing it.

    9. TinitusTheRed on

      One huge problem with the wind chiefs opinion.

      Home grown oil and gas would still be priced as oil and gas from anywhere else. Oil price is a global commodity, so even though we’d extract it and use it at home the greedy oil companies would charge market rates, unless it’s a nonprofit public energy company.

      But that would get privatised in a heart beat and still be responsible for metric tonnes of greenhouse gases.

      Wind chief is clearly looking for a new job in the oil and gas sector.

    10. AvadaBalaclava on

      At this point I’d issue licenses just to shut up the people who won’t stop going on about it and how it gives us energy security, I’d then double down on trying magnet everyone onto renewable sources of energy without the constant backlash of “but North Sea licenses”

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