Think it's Time to Start Drilling

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Oil price rising fast which means energy, food, petrol costs, everything will rocket fast and jobs will be lost.

We have our own oil in our own back yard, which would give us protection.

AIBU to think we should grant oil licences and get drilling.

If not we're going to reach Net Zero a lot faster than planned and it ain't going to be pretty.

@randomchap It's really not that simple.
I am sure it isn't but if we had better politicians in charge we could get something done instead they shrug and say 'it's too difficult'.

The UK is 30 years too late to establish a Norwegian like policy it would have to start a long time ago as the production levels are in decline so it would quickly become obsolete.

The windfall tax is hammering UK operations though and the supply chain as a result. Its well catalogued.

Energy policy unfortunately becomes political football rather then what's needed which is balance and investment.

Fundamentally increasing drilling in the north sea won't bring down oil or energy prices.

If a politician claims that it will then that shows him to be an unscrupulous liar, or a fool

Good luck selling any O+G licences that have a clause in them saying 'you must only sell in the UK, and at a price to be determined by the UK government'.

The only way that could be done is by setting up a state-owned O+G company, as Norway and KSA have done.

No, we need to move forward not back.

I am very concerned about climate change and environmental issues generally, but I’ve been listening to some interviews with Kathryn Porter (energy consultant) which have been quite eye opening. I would recommend having a listen to hear her views on this subject.

Bit of a waste of time if wars are being waged. The huge environmental damage caused surely negates anything we can do as a populace.

Yes. This whole climate hoax needs to be put to bed.

Every major scientific body on Earth agrees that the climate is warming due to human activity.

Denying climate change just means you're ignoring evidence.

You're not a free thinker, you're just parroting nonsense.

But if wars are being waged and the current crisis in Iran is obviously wreaking havoc on the environment what is it you feel would make a difference?

Not denying climate change is what is needed.

You are very Misinformed.. it's very deep the oil now in North Sea. It will cost billions and a long time to extract. The oil fields are owned by American companies so it's not ours.
Renewables are better long term.

Yeah for sure but what actual difference would it make?

We also live on an island, surrounded by powerful water. And have lots of hills, which is where the wind lives. I mean, it’s even sunny sometimes. It’s time we moved on from oil.

I assumed this was going to be about getting revenge on noisy neighbours.

We can't deny climate change but what can we actually do about it if governments keep waging war? Making weapons and deploying these weapons cause huge environmental damage but that seems ok with governments whilst they nudge us to do this that and the next thing re saving the planet. It doesn't make sense.

Man made climate change is an existential threat to humanity

It needs to be tackled otherwise the wars for resources, much like the current Iran one, will become more frequent and bigger

Habitat loss, and the loss of farm land will cause mass migration and starvation

I could go on. But you could just Google it

didn't we use up most of it in the 80s when the likes of Margaret Thatchers son and his mates got very rich. Meanwhile Norway used it for a sovereign wealth fund.

Yes, of course, I agree. But as I have said above our feeble efforts will not make a wit of a difference whilst governments continue to war so what's the point. It will make no difference in the grand scheme of things.

I completely agree with you. We’re not using less oil, it’s just where we’re getting it from. Madness to be reliant on foreign countries when we could be more self-sufficient in these tricky times.

correction, I checked, seems like Mark Thatcher was not involved in North Sea oil. It was an overseas oil scandal.

Only if you want fracking.

I'd prefer we made efforts, no matter how feeble, rather than do fuck all.

At least if we're doing something we have the opportunity to move on to something more effective. Denying there's a problem means we carry on actively making things worse.

Future generations are going to despise us, but hey, at least some very rich people got even richer.

Why can't we do both ?
Keep on working on renewables and get security for our country

Unfortunately a lot of money has been given to Ed mill for carbon capture which isn't a safe bet . That money should have been used on a variety of projects

Yes, of course we can do what we can with recycling, etc and we should be absolutely be striving to make our own environment better. But, we will not make any difference to the global problems. And when governments continue to wage war, our little efforts account to zero.