Dreamstime is the worlds largest stock photography community. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. ™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Sunak’s announcement puts his Conservative government at loggerheads with the opposition Labour Party, which has called for a ban on all new oil and gas projects in the North Sea, and a funneling of new investment into the country’s renewable energy industry. “Relying on fossil fuels is terrible for our energy security, the cost of living, and the climate,” Evans said.

Philip Evans, oil and gas transition campaigner for Greenpeace UK, also said Monday that the government had “decided to row back on key climate policies, attempted to toxify net zero, and recycled old myths about North Sea drilling.” “Extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea will send a wrecking ball through the UK’s climate commitments at a time when we should be investing in a just transition to a low carbon economy and our own abundant renewables,” Lyndsay Walsh, Oxfam’s climate change policy advisor, said in a Monday statement. “ is a central part of plans to decarbonize North Sea operations, and to store emissions from other parts of Scottish industry,” he said.Ĭlimate groups have criticized Sunak’s announcement as a setback for the UK’s environmental goals. Simon Roddy, senior vice president of Shell UK’s exploration and production business, said in a statement that the announcement of a new carbon capture and storage project in Scotland was “an important step forward” for the industry.

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