It takes some astonishing mental gymnastics to believe that increasing production of fossil fuels is good for the climate. But that’s the message British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is selling with his approval of 100 new North Sea oil and gas licenses.
Speaking to broadcasters while visiting Scotland on Monday, Sunak claimed that drilling for more oil and gas is “entirely consistent with our plan to get to net zero” and that producing such energy domestically saves “two, three, four times the amount of carbon emissions.” He failed to mention that the vast majority of emissions from oil and gas comes when you actually burn the stuff and that we get about 77% of our imported gas via pipeline from Norway which is, by the North Sea Transition Authority’s own analysis, less than half the carbon intensity of domestically produced gas.
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