UK's North Sea Oil Ban: Who Benefits, and at What Cost?

Fossil fuels will remain part of the energy mix for decades to come – if we don’t extract our own resources from the North Sea, our loss will be other polluters’ gain, says Andy Mayer The new government’s plans to capitulate to the likes of Just Stop Oil by banning new drilling licences in the North Sea will do nothing to prevent climate change. Global warming is driven mainly by the consumption of fossil fuels for energy not their extraction. The UK currently consumes 75-80 percent of our primary energy in the form of fossil…