@ECIU_UK @energygovuk @CBI_Economics @TheDataCity @ScotParl @BBCScotlandNews @BBCScotland I’ve never met a sinlge person who has a ‘net zero’ job?
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There you go Esther. Explained it for you. But you will have misled lots of uninformed people who think you are an expert on drilling for oil and gas and who have forgotten that Thatcher sold off our rights to profit from North Sea oil and gas.
Esther McVey@EstherMcVey1
One way out of the UK’s financial problems is to drill in the North Sea, to release the black gold under our noses and get money going into the exchequer. This isn’t a far flung fantasy, it is precisely what Norway is doing with its oil deposits in the North Sea which is making their country very wealthy and energy self-sufficient. So typically, instead of doing just that, Miliband and Starmer are doing the exact opposite. As part of Labour’s Energy Independence Bill they are banning all new oil exploration and drilling licenses in the North Sea ‘to take control of our energy security’ and to be a ‘clean energy super power’ by 2030! Deluded. These idiots are utterly deluded. When Starmer finally goes, is it too much to hope that Miliband is forced out too!
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We were pleased to welcome Energy Minister @mgshanks to our Bacton Gas Terminal. A critical entry point to the NTS, Bacton handles around a third of Britain's gas imports, helping keep energy flowing safely and reliably across the country. nationalgas.com/media/news/min…
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This article by @KathrynPorter26 is characteristically and fundamentally wrong as it falsely argues that more drilling in the North Sea would stop the U.K. from being dependent on imports of oil and gas.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
🗣️ 'The idea that Britain somehow helps the climate by importing more energy is simply not true' @KathrynPorter26 challenges Ed Miliband's North Sea drilling ban law in her latest column ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@DaleVince There are at least 11.2 billion barrels of oil left you credit.
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This is a good move from Ed.
Our part of the North Sea is all but empty of oil and gas, less than 10% remaining and just ten years from being done. Right now it’s a major distraction for the anti 'green economy' voices, who point illogically to more drilling as the answer to the fossil fuel and energy bill crisis we’re enduring again - second one this decade, prob won't be the last.
The North Sea oil era is over.
We need Energy Independence from our own green sources and vitally we still need to break the link to prevent global oil shocks from driving our wind and sun prices up.
Thumbs up for this move.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@ember_energy In other words you are guaranteeing that the prices will be permanently high, you idiots.
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🚨 NEW | 15% of #Britain’s electricity generation is already independent from the gas power price, securing price stability amid the energy crisis 🔒💷
This is set to more than double to a third (36%) of British power by 2030 🌪️☀️📈 (🧵 1/3)
ember-energy.org/latest-insight…
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Thanks to the all Labour activists out campaigning today.
We were elected to change this country, two years in we’ve got a lot done, and we’ve got lots more to do.
The Prime Minister and the whole cabinet is focussed on delivering on the change we promised to the country.
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9️⃣3️⃣% of North Sea oil and gas likely to ever be produced has 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 been extracted - new analysis
Over next 25 years, of the remaining 7% of the culmulative total just 1-2% of gas (381 TWh) and oil (74M tonnes) would come from new drilling.
eciu.net/media/press-re…
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You continue to misrepresent the facts about the Iberian blackout. I have called you out about it and explained how you have distorted the truth. I understand why that upsets you.
Kathryn Porter@KathrynPorter26
@ret_ward @spectator @X You called me a liar for writing about the REE report into the Iberian blackout. You deserve calling out for that. It's not how decent people behave Let's see if you do it to my face or just when you can hide behind your screen People like you are the reason I get death threats
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@jonburkeUK You don’t know anything about geology or the north sea. You have probably never been outside of the m25, you idiot.
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The Shadow Energy Secretary claims we share the "same basin" as Norway.
𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐄.
𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒:
The Norwegian Continental Shelf & UK Continental Shelf are separate basins.
Only 3% of U.K fields are transboundary.
93% of U.K reserves have been pumped.
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho
Norway just announced 70 new blocks of oil and gas exploration, including in the North Sea. Meanwhile, just over the border on the British side of the North Sea, Ed Miliband tells us we’ve got nothing left so he HAS to ban new licences. Same basin. Same geology. Madness.
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@latimeralder The graph reminds me of mario balotelli when he played for man city.
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I hired a supposedly 'progressive', 'green', 'cheap' employee to help me get to Net Zero wages
He demanded constant bonuses and sympathy for his many ailments
Here's his work output record during April
Did I make a good choice? Or is he an expensive, unreliable, unnecessary burden?
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@breadandposes @latimeralder When it is calm in the UK it is highly likely to be calm in Europe as well?
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Cos when it's windy here and not there we export to them. Interdependence is the only security. No man is an island
Latimer Alder@latimeralder
Right now, 28% of Britain's electricity is being imported... Can anyone explain the 'energy security' in relying on other countries to keep our lights on?
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'Wind power' is having another off day
Making just 5% of UK's electricity right now.
1% of our total energy needs
Mr Miliband is betting our whole economy on 'wind power'
He's nuts!
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Strongly agree with @energygovuk @Ed_Miliband that the roll-out of homegrown renewables and electrification is the best way to strengthen energy security and reduce exposure to volatile gas prices. Government action taken today will help dampen the link between gas and power prices, further supporting consumers. Continued support to deliver AR8 and connections reform, as well as to maintain investor certainty more generally, will ensure we can build faster and cost effectively
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The correlation coefficient of combined wind and solar output with demand is about 0.15. Almost totally uncorrelated, so will always require both curtailment and expensive backup.
Dr Paul Dorfman@dorfman_p
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'Those people who say new exploration licenses will somehow create huge amounts of energy for us... I mean, they're just wrong'
Ed Miliband told ITV News that drilling for oil in the North Sea wouldn't bring down Britain's energy bills
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@TheSolarShed You are raking in loads of money thanks to the green scam. You take money from poor bill payers and keep it for yourself. Shame on you.
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Oh, where has she gone?
Where have her army of fossil funded bots gone?
Where have the right wing opinionated anti renewables lobbiest gone?
Where the Putin apologists and petro state funded anti British industry 'experts' gone?
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It would even reduce global emissions by avoiding the energy-intensive process of liquefying and shipping LNG. A rational response would include scrapping the 78% marginal windfall tax and ending the ban on new exploration. (11/15)
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In a vote tantamount to treason, Parliament decided 297-108 to put Net Zero ideology above Britain's energy security. MPs rejected a Tory motion to scrap the Energy Profits Levy, lift the ban on new North Sea licences & approve the Rosebank & Jackdaw fields. A thread (1/15)
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@CitySamuel That is a good way of describing the situation, thank you.
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I'd add: That there aren't many fossil fuels left in the North Sea.
It's weird people who were in government for 14 years are suddenly claiming there's loads of energy there (that they didn't drill?)
Steve Akehurst@SteveAkehurst
Two basic things that used to be uncontroversial: - the vast majority of North Sea oil is sold abroad, so cannot meaningfully contribute to UK energy security - gas and oil prices are set internationally, what’s left in the North Sea is too small to move it
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