Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said that if his party is elected, drilling will remove all pure zero requirements on oil and gas companies in the North Sea.
Badenoch has to formally announce a plan to focus on “maximum extraction” and focus on “all our oil and gas out of the North Sea” in a speech in Aberdeen on Tuesday.
Improvement UK has said that it wants more fossil fuel extracted from the North Sea.
The Labor Government has committed to ban the new investigation license. A spokesman said that a “fair and systematic transition” away from oil and gas would be “drive growth”.
The government spokesperson warned, the search for new areas “will not take a penny from the bill” or will improve energy security and “will only accelerate the deteriorating climate crisis”.
Badenoch indicated a significant change in the conservative climate policy when it announced earlier this year Net zero will be “impossible” by 2050,
The British governments of Britain promised to reach the target by 2050 and was written in the law by Theresa in 2019. This means that the UK should cut carbon emissions unless it is in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Now Badenoch has said that the needs of working towards Net Zero are a burden on oil and gas producers in the North Sea that are damaging the economy and which it will remove.
The Tory leader said that a conservative government would reduce the need to reduce emissions or work on techniques such as carbon storage.
Badenoch stated that it was “absurd” that Britain “was leaving important resources unused”, while “neighbors like Norway pulled him out of the same sea bed”.
In 2023, then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave 100 new licenses The net was “fully consistent” with the net zero commitments to drill in the North Sea at that time.
Improvement UK has said that it will happen End push to net zero If chosen.
The present government said that it made “the biggest investment in the offshore wind and three first a kind of carbon capture and storage cluster”.
The purpose of carbon capture and storage features is to prevent carbon dioxide (CO2) generated from industrial processes and power stations from being released in the atmosphere.
Most of the produced CO2 is captured, transported and then stored deep underground.
It is seen as a major element by the International Energy Agency’s choice and the Climate Change Committee, which meets the target for cutting greenhouse gases running dangerous climate change.
