No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for 1.5C goal
By Paul Homewood
The nutters are back again!
from the Guardian:
None of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target, a report has found.
The five countries – the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark – have failed to align their oil and gas policies with their climate promises under the Paris agreement, according to the campaign group Oil Change International.
North Sea governments must act urgently, said Silje Ask Lundberg from Oil Change International, who co-wrote the report. “Failure to address these issues not only undermines international climate goals, but also jeopardises the liveability of our planet.”
The report found that policies in Norway and the UK were furthest from the Paris climate agreement because the countries were “aggressively” exploring and licensing new oil and gas fields. In 2021, the International Energy Agency found there was no room for new oil exploration in its pathway to net zero emissions.
Tessa Khan, the founder of the climate campaign group Uplift, said the UK was in a tiny club of countries driving a crisis for little public gain. “This government is set on squeezing every last drop out of the North Sea, yet we know we’ve already discovered more oil and gas than it is safe to burn.”
For a start, the “pledges” made at Paris would not have been consistent with a 1.5C goal, according to the UNFCCC itself. Far from halving emissions by 2030, which was the objective, the pledges would actually result in emissions continuing to rise.
Secondly, the whole of Europe only accounts for 3% of the world’s oil and 5% of gas production, so is pretty much irrelevant in the overall view of things:
BP Energy Review
Moreover Europe consumes five times as much oil as it produces, and two and a half times the gas. Plainly it is not oil and gas production that is the issue, but consumption. Maximising North Sea assets will make no difference one way or another to consumption. But what it will do is reduce emissions, by reducing reliance on highly polluting countries and the need for shipping.
But commonsense never was a Guardian strongpoint!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Perhaps they should be asking why, despite the hundreds of billions spent worldwide, renewables have only made a tiny dent in oil and gas usage.
Any failure to take advantage of accessible oil and gas in the North Sea and north and north west of Scotland condemns the UK economy to continuing failure to compete with other industrial countries.
The failure is inflationary and maintains high costs for the domestic consumer. Expensive fuel drives down living standards. If this was better understood the Greens would be wiped out at the ballot box.
I would have to wonder if the name ‘Silje Ask‘ which could well be pronounced ‘Silly Ass’ is a case of nominitive determinism.
I don’t even believe the football results printed in the Guardian.
Top comment!
I would double check the day and date.
Hang on lads, I’ve got an idea…
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/03/14/government-urged-to-decide-on-centricas-rough-by-end-of-2024/
Let’s cut the capacity to a third, and use hydrogen that is far more likely to leak than the methane leakage that previously shut it down. Then we can get a LDES Business Model to subsidise it all.
Meanwhile Pfalzwerke is discontinuing it’s hydrogen electolysis because it is uneconomic.
THis article is in code:
Vattenfall completes ‘world-first’ development for offshore hydrogen (current-news.co.uk)
Translation:
Vattenfall Ditches Project to Produce Hydrogen From Offshore Wind | OilPrice.com
£9.3m of taxpayer funding drowned in the ocean:
Hydrogen Turbine 1 – Vattenfall
The repeated focus on knackerating Western economies is telling.
It tells that this campaign of garbage is politically not environmentally driven. That the useful idiots in the van of this religion either do not see or pretend not to see that they are being used is the product of 70 years of the slow creep of marxism into first taking over our education system followed by the rest of our institutions.
We do not hear about much klymutt hysteria in China or India, no interviews with hopeless brainwashed fools virtually with their wombs, no child klymutt anxiety……I wonder wonder why……
Oh! That should have said “virtue signalling with their wombs”
Oh look. Even more subsidies to be added to bills.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/03/14/uk-offers-cash-bonuses-for-green-wind-investments/
The mind contortions 8nvolved in pretending that this will lead to cheaper power are extraordinary.
As you say, the mind contortions are bonkers. Cheaper electricity my ar$e. Who’s paying for these ‘sustainable’ turbines? Oh yes, it’s the consumer/taxpayer, while the extra payments are simply bribes to manufacturers/developers.
Just shaking my head in disbelief 🙄🙄🙄
These people are not just boring nut stupid. What’s being licensed is exploratory drilling.
The truth remains a distant thing for the Guardian in the last few decades.