‘Rosebank received’t do something to decrease our vitality payments, or make our vitality provide safer.’
A marketing campaign has been launched to oppose Liz Truss’ plans to approve the ‘largest undeveloped oil subject within the North Sea’, because the disastrous results of local weather change proceed to wreak havoc throughout the planet.
Truss has made clear that one of many methods wherein she hopes to sort out the vitality disaster is by awarding a whole bunch of latest drilling licences to North Sea vitality corporations in a bid to extend manufacturing.
The plans not solely fly within the face of the UK’s internet zero commitments but additionally do little to sort out rising vitality prices, with consultants warning that it takes a median of 28 years for an exploration licence to result in oil and fuel manufacturing. The proposals additionally fail to have in mind the impression they’ll have on local weather change.
Asserting the launch of the marketing campaign to oppose Truss’ plans develop the Rosebank oil subject, marketing campaign group Tipping level warned: “Rosebank WON’T decrease payments or make our vitality safer. Nevertheless it WILL produce air pollution equal to the world’s 28 lowest-income international locations.”
The Cease Rosebank marketing campaign states on its web site: “The local weather impacts of Rosebank can be catastrophic: the emissions from burning its oil and fuel can be greater than the annual CO2 emissions of the 28 lowest-income international locations mixed. In different phrases, this one UK subject would produce extra air pollution than the world’s 700 million poorest individuals produce in a complete yr.
“And Rosebank received’t do something to decrease our vitality payments, or make our vitality provide safer. In truth, a venture like Rosebank is designed to make oil giants even richer at our expense. Rosebank’s builders – together with Norwegian oil big Equinor – stand to get a half billion pound tax break only for going by with the sector.
“We are saying: no extra. No extra tax breaks for oil giants. No extra skyrocketing vitality payments. No extra oil fields that destroy our possibilities at a habitable future. We’ve seen the results of 1.1C levels of world heating – devastating floods throughout Pakistan, rivers drying up throughout Europe, and scorching warmth in China in the previous few months alone. We can’t let it get hotter. Rosebank will solely pour extra gasoline on the hearth.”
Folks can signal the petition calling on the federal government to #StopRosebank on the hyperlink right here.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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