Labour’s plan to ban new oil and gas drilling is “economically senseless” and threatens to bring forward rig shutdowns by a decade, a major North Sea operator has warned.
Amjad Bseisu, chief executive of Enquest, said blocking new drilling licences would put jobs and investment at risk, while bringing forward shutdown costs for the taxpayer.
It’s also going to kill tax revenues. But there’s no stopping people in the grips of an ideological delusion.
We used to think people who believed in witchcraft were slightly dotty and primitive and barbaric.
I wonder what the 23rd century will make of this?
Nah Grist, it’ll just get lost in the wash, like the railway mania of the mid 19th century.
It won’t be long before we have nuclear fusion, flying cars and jet packs.
Wibble
Add making food more expensive in the name of appeasing the climate change gods.
https://cliscep.com/2024/01/20/tilling-an-unyielding-soil/
H/T Diogenes on Twitter
“We must also decarbonise the farming sector. That is why Labour will switch on Great British Energy, a new publicly owned company that will bring together public and private investment to harness clean home-grown British power: wind, wave, solar and nuclear. That means cheaper bills for our farmers.”
You’ll need a very long, very thick extension lead to power a tractor in the middle of a 30 acre field.
That, BiND, is why the farmer protests in Holland and Germany are being described as ‘far right’.
It’s apparently’ far right’ now to want groceries to buy in the shops. Who knew?
Grist – We used to think people who believed in witchcraft were slightly dotty and primitive and barbaric.
We were wrong, weren’t we? Look at the Labour Party front bench and tell me witches aren’t real.
They think we’ve forgotten about the PFI scams already? Those made HS2 look cheap by comparison.
BiND – We must also decarbonise the farming sector
I don’t wish to alarm you, but this means “starve the kulaks to death for Greta”.
I don’t know why people who already know about the British government’s involvement in the grooming gangs think the British government wouldn’t dare try to murder us. Optimism or something?
Sorry Steve… Us “witches” are quite real, but you generally won’t find us in he Houses of Parliament.
Seems we don’t have the right Religion for that..
Besides… We generally don’t force people to see Things our particular way.
The Threefold Law , like Murphy’s edict, may be a firm rule of thumb, but it does give a strict warning that Things may turn around and bite you in the back if you ..force issues.
You really have to look to the Abrahamic-derived schools of thought to encounter the One True Way/Our Way or the Highway approach to life.
This really is one of those cases where you point one finger at someone else, and forget that there’s 3 fingers pointing towards you…
Banning an industry destroys the jobs in that industry? You don’t say!
Grikath – You really have to look to the Abrahamic-derived schools of thought to encounter the One True Way/Our Way or the Highway approach to life.
Yarp, but as we’ve recently rediscovered, there’s a million ways for people to fuck up their lives and the society they come from, and only a narrow path leading to good things.
Or to put it another way, normality is an achievement.
I think it will be bugs all round and possibly a diet of pure vegetables
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/are-our-elites-crazy.php
Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, King Charles, and George Soros are very consistent here – the era of abundant food for the masses HAS to end – we can’t afford for everyone to eat like the USA (Apparently)
Steve – I’d add the Post Office scandal, migration, the War in Ukraine and a raft of other things as proof the government is essentially ‘Murder Inc’
VP – Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, King Charles, and George Soros are very consistent here
Charles makes me angrier than the other creeps. Obviously Jeffrey Epstein’s pals are evil men who can be expected to do evil things, but Charles is meant to be our king.
A king who can’t be arsed to defend his kingdom or his subjects. Francis Urquhart had the right idea.
@ Van_Patten
That link opens a pretty shady pop-up for me (using Chrome).
Joe Smith
Apologies – seems ok in Safari…