[UK Tory leader Kemi Badenough] it seems, is about to unveil a pledge to extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible.
This is from the front page of the Sunday Telegraph which is carrying a headline proclaiming, “Drill the North Sea dry, says Badenoch”, mirrored by an online story headed: “Kemi Badenoch: No more net zero – extract every drop of North Sea oil”.
From the online text, we learn that this week in Aberdeen she will deliver a speech that will draw comparison to Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” moment, when she will vow to abolish all environmental restrictions on fossil fuel extraction.
This, it is said, will be her greatest departure from net zero to date. It will emulate the wealth-creating approach taken by Norway and establish “a clear dividing line with Ed Miliband, who is forging ahead with net zero plans to ban new oil and gas licences.
Such a pledge, if ever translated into policy, would release the estimated 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the UK’s North Sea sector, although there may be even more, with some recent analyses suggesting that up to 7.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent could still be produced from UK waters,
To put this into context, the total annual primary energy consumption figure for the UK runs at about 550 million barrels of oil equivalent, which includes consumption directly by consumers, fuel used for electricity generation, and other transformation processes.
And, there’s more.
h/t Adrian
Just an empty promise to whip up support for the Tories. Like, yes, we’ll stop illegal immigration into Britain. Kemi is on her way out as the Tories leader so why should anyone pay her attention?
Time for a revolution in many countries. Traitors should be shot or hung in public places. Worry about the legalities after the fact.
You can take care of sentence #3 by taking care of sentence #2.
l still wanna know how all those billions (had to be, big and small) dinosaurs managed to die in the same place, close enough in time to ‘werk’, with the oil from their decomposed bodies winding up under immense pressure stuck as it seems between layers of impermeable rock. not to see the light of day for 100s millions of years.
because when l suggested it could ALSO, in fact almost exclusively be a geological effect in grade school l got SHOUTED DOWN including jantzi the grade 7 teacherrrrr. thus l never got to ask howcum oil reserves are not also huge fossil finds? never hear anything of that sort . . . thus sayeth the ex-spurts
Oil tends to be marine fossils crushed and heated. Coal tends to be forests crushed and heated. Coal has fossils, lots of them.
The dinosaur-oil thing went away, quietly, a long time ago. Ukrainian scientists, in the 1980s, took some dolomite, ground it up, mixed it with water, and put it under terrific heat and pressure, and got crude oil. Dolomite is what we know as marble, and is limestone created by layers of skeletons of tiny sea animals.
The sea bottom is covered in many feet of such stuff, and subduction of tectonic plates carries it underneath overriding plates, crushing and heating it and making oil. It’s an ongoing process and there are probably enormous volumes of oil we know nothing about yet.
So now we know where the very high levels of CO2 from previous epochs went.
Carbonate rocks are 10% of the crust; so an adequate carbon sink. As CO2 concentrations rise, carbonate production in deep oceans rises.
Do you have a link for that study?
“Ukrainian scientists” sounds like a euphemism, doesn’t it?
… writ large in the issue are the makings of the final humiliation of the United Kingdom
… a nation that cannot even stop illegal immigrants crossing the Channel in rubber dinghies, there are very limited prospects of the Royal Navy defending the Falklands from the Argentinians backed by Russia, much less excluding the Russians from the British Antarctica Territories
Kate, Kate, Kate … remember! Brian Z. says NO! HELL NO!! to “drill baby drill” … because that will only drive down oil prices and hence the wages of his UNIONISTA oil buddies. Brian Z. HATES Trump for saying “Drill Baby Drill”
Let’s keep fossil fuels rare but legal … kinda like abortion, eh? Brian?
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