The UKās oil and gas drilling plans are incompatible with responding to the climate emergency, according to āSea Change,ā a new report by Platform, Oil Change International, and Friends of the Earth Scotland, published today.
North Sea
Sea Change: Climate Emergency, Jobs and Managing the Phase-Out of UK Oil and Gas Extraction
This new report reveals, for the first time, the climate impact of North Sea oil and gas extraction, and shows the way to a job-creating energy transition. To deal with the climate emergency, the UK needs to immediately stop approving new oil and gas drilling and redirect support to clean jobs and renewable energy.
The UKās net-zero target must address oil and gas extraction too
The elephant in the room of UK climate policy
Statement of Solidarity with Striking Workers on Totalās North Sea Platforms
Oil Change International and Platform express their solidarity with striking workers on platforms in the North Sea operated by French oil giant Total.
New UK Oil Drilling Round Could Bust Us Through Climate Limits
Post by Mika Minio-Paluello, first published byĀ Platform The UK government is pushingĀ a massiveĀ new offshore drilling programme, that will takeĀ the UK beyond its climate limits. Oil companies hadĀ until 2pm WednesdayĀ to bid for 1200 blocks coveringĀ large swathes of the sea off North-west and North-east Scotland and England. There is no space in the atmosphere for the … Read More
Solidarity with striking North Sea oil workers
Oil Change International in solidarity with striking oil workers in Scotland
UK BUDGET 2016: Oil tax breaks are the wrong course
Response to UK Budget 2016
OIL TAX FACTS: Dispelling North Sea Oil Myths
Dispelling myths about North Sea oil taxes, jobs, profits and climate
UK Government Bails Out North Sea; Gives “Nothing to Solarā
Last week, the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, flew to Aberdeen, the oil capital of the UK to announce Ā£250 million emergency funding to āprop up the North Sea oil industryā; which is reeling badly from the low oil price.
65,000 Jobs Lost in North Sea
The low price is affecting more mature areas of production too and nowhere is that more so than the British North Sea.