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You might be able to help us here regarding your fight. What personal actions have you taken to dramatically cut carbon emissions?

Shameful and cowardly indeed. A government of the corporations, for the corporations.

Hmm. Rejoin SM. Net zero by 2045. 90% renewal generation. End raw sewage dumping. Voting at 16. STV system. End right to buy. 150,000 new council houses. Super tax. Equalise capital and income tax. Freeze bus and rail fares. Nat care service. Lots to like.

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Stupid decision. The financial beneficiaries will be share holders in fuel companies. All of human society will be further hazarded by this choice.

Yep. Madness. Want clean gas? Try anaerobically digested sewage, waste food & crop residues > biogas, CASH, compost, cleaner rivers & seas, more fish & jobs. Yet no one will talk about it. DK Ger, Ireland already getting gas from these free sources. !!!!!

👍🏼 These guys are worth a (non-lithium, Vanadium flow) follow: invinity.com/uk/

We’ve reached the peak of "legacy software" governance: patching a sinking ship by drilling a hole in the hull to see if the fuel is still there.

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#carsAreATrap #carsBlockTraffic #carsKill #endCarEra

None of it stays in the uk, it's not the uk's supply, it's Shells, who are selling it on international markets. the government admitted it today and Shell have been stating this all along, Burnham even said that's why he wouldn't allow it, before he was PM.

How? Read this from a global expert in mitigation and carbon budgets. climateuncensored.com/jackdaw-a-de...

If we're talking about marketing, mainstream economics and/or the engineering that supports their activities, then that would be pretty much every single UK university. And once you've finished your degree, they turn up in person to recruit you to work for them: peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...

20 years Scotland have put Labour in the bin. Still they get to trash our Environment.

On the contrary - that is completely normal.

Lobbyist 1 Citizens 0

Appalling...then to suggest he will remove standing charges for gas in 'UK' households. As with everytime Burnham says UK..he really means England. Most of Scotland does not have a gas supply. On a positive note..will this action then displace data centres on the carbon emission tally?

Personally I don't think this is a binary option we all know gas will remain important for some time irrespective of how much we push for renewables Why cut off your nose to spite your face Yes go green as fast as possible but gas will be needed till we don't need it

Minister: The molecules will find their way into our gas pipes. The molecules: We will soon be free 🎉 🔥⚡🌧️☠️

Of course the record heatwaves of the summer are gone and the climate crisis is over...right?

I think it's as much about keeping Scottish independence off the agenda as anything. Poor excuse. Perhaps it would be different if it was treated as a precious resource that we might need for the future, but it's just going in the same heap as the rest of it, to be used for ridiculous profits.

Donations to ministers, legalised corruption.

How? Emissions depend on consumption not production. It will replace some of the gas we import. Will more gas be consumed globally? No.

And exactly what you would expect. We are utterly in thrall to the corporate vultures who are destroying life and so-called civilisation at ever increasing rates. It's as simple as this either they go or we all do. It's that level of existential.

It should reduce our reliance on fracked LNG and marginally improve the security of gas supplies to the UK. Gas will be needed for many years in the future. We have an old housing stock and I think a lot of people have reservations about the ability of heat pumps to work economically for them.

Instead we should have sued Felon 4547 administration for this illegal unprovoked war which started all this crisis.

The ship of fools rams our life rafts on behalf of pirates!

George thinks because more gas is produced (a minuscule amount in global terms) more gas will be consumed.

I live in an old Victorian house, and needed a new boiler last year. Frustratingly I had to replace it with a new gas boiler. The cost for a heat pump and necessary changes to the house were exorbitant.

I too have a combi gas boiler that would be too expensive to replace with an air heat pump. But I am getting an air to air heat pump, more commonly known as an air conditioner but allowing both cooling or heating depending on the time of year. Should work well with my solar panels and battery set up

I now have solar hot water (South Africa). Not on a separate meter but I run the electric backup 3 hours/day. The element uses 50% of the power of a purely electric solution and only draws power if the sun hasn’t taken the temperature high enough. Gains would be less in a cooler climate.

It's a greedy decision. I'm betting it wasn't decided cheaply

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It’s not even like we are going to get any benefits from it. Our energy prices will continue to be dictated by ‘the market’. The energy companies will make a fortune, selling us our own gas.

Regressing on EU environmental safeguards including river protection and chemical restrictions. Dropping the climate and nature bill and u turns on Green funding . Whats there not to like about Labour ( from a former lifetime voter)?

Trail hunting foot dragging after committing to ban it.Manifesto pledges to end trail hunting , trophy hunting , snares and Badger culling All FORGOTTEN

Labour campaigned on strengthening nature protection. In reality they have given us priority of economic infrastructure and weakening biodiversity net gain. A planning bill ‘license to destroy’ Wildlife charities and put over 5,000 ‘protected’ sites at high risk.

Hoping the electorate will see Labour as ‘ pragmatic ‘ , on the side of the consumer , so they will vote for the party next election .

Captured by the financial interests of corporate lobbyists. Same result, different leader on a different day.

Appalling decision. Cowardly and deceitful. One more reason not to trust Burnham

It feels a bit like waking up to the news of Brexit

I don't know enough to comment on whether it makes any real difference to our energy dependency problem. But it makes somebody rich for sure. And I really wish the PM would decide whether the manifesto commitments meant anything. Seems to be flexible?

Fake Labour always, *always*, caves in to corporate lobbying.

The main reason we’re in such a mess is that when it comes to the crunch, our politicians (on all sides) always fold & give in to special interests. Their failure is systemic - politicians are too weak to stand up to the weight of lobbying. Nothing improves until we fix that.

It will be sold on the international market. Push comes to shove isn’t a serious approach to energy policy. The only energy security to be had is in keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Any tax raised will be spent on the whims of however many Energy ministers we have in the next decade.

This is wrong. Gas is the bridge to renewables and we need molecules to travel the shortest distance possible while we’re using it.

Just further proof that Burnham, like Starmer, remains firmly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry...

Approving Jackdaw prioritizes corporate oil profits over public welfare and climate stability. Social democracy demands ending fossil fuel hand-outs, expanding public ownership of clean energy, and protecting working families through a just, state-backed green transition.

Are you stupid?

Yep that figure was just reported on ITV News at 10.

What is?

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Unless you're flying from Newquay of course.

Without the excuse of oil & gas, how would colonial imperialists continue to play the game, they are so hooked on?

The largest reason the UK is not profiting from having significantly cheaper bills based on renewable energy is ofgems insistence on coupling electricity prices with gas prices.

100%. This is the biggest problem with renewables is there is no profit in them because the power source is the Sun which is free

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social It's an utter lack of vision from Burnham 🫩

The other side is Norway and its sovereign wealth fund. You can't ignore that on one side you have the UK poor as a church mouse and Norway wealthier than Scrooge Mc Duck. The same body of water , the same gas fields .

@BashStKid @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Abolishing gas Standing charges actually reduces the costs of electrification, according to these energy experts: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/energy-affordability/abolish-gas-standing-charge/ It's counterintuitive until you look at the maths

We don't have a government. We have a grouping of Neoliberal enablers. An array of compromised departments led by ministers all compromised & none representing their electorate. Except the blind very wealthy minority. So our society is fucked by fuckwits, who spend their days researching PR & BS.

Give the Prince his right to be pragmatic, so he can negotiate fuck all worth having for the people he purports to support. AB is a Neoliberal con, so far, & as far as I can see. A socialist would have blasted Into action, rent control, billionaire taxes & deep ecogical support. The least we need.

No there isn't George. This is nonsense. We import half our oil and gas consumption.

The FF industry has EVERYONE right where they want them.

It is a deeply cynical betrayal of Socialist considerations, perhaps partly in fear of hidden offshore corporate profit law suits. I turn to our disenfranchised youth, facing both AI & ecological catastrophe. Hopefully the majority join the Green Party & seek more radical restitution of their future

As the gap to the Tories and Reform widens, Burnham does everything in his power to narrow it again.

And if you were to demand a reservation policy to keep locall prices lower they will reject that, because at the end of the day they want to make bank and don't care about lowering energy prices, and that sums up the big lie thats sold to justify doing it in the first place.

Yep

No, it's filling a need. What we need to do is reduce the need. You're tackling the wrong end.

Surely the government should be looking at reforming the rules based on %generation fuel makeup and thus bringing prices down as generators transition to 'free' renewables in infinite supply? As prices fall, uptake increases. Green jobs boom, and it becomes a self-solving problem. #WinWinWin

It won't even make things cheaper as its all in private hands and they will just sell at the top of the market rate. Its a fucking joke.

Burnham's talking out of both sides of his mouth. you can't be serious about climate change at the same time as opening new gas fields. it won't make a dent in the UK's reliance on Russian gas either

A comment this morning was that any tax revenue will go towards green solutions. But if tax incentives are being offered this is 🐂💩 as there will likely be no nett gain.

Energy security, but only for less-russian. We should, in parallel, be putting loads of effort into renewables

How do those contributions compare with the damage to the UK’s image as a world leader in the climate change efforts?

Can we start calling it extinction event now instead of climate breakdown or climate change please?

Just business usual for this awful lot

I’d be interested in your thoughts on what Kevin Anderson says in this interview. He guessed Jackdaw would be approved and Rosebank not podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

It solves the problem of giving Russia cash for gas whilst we transition to fossil fuel free. Obviously instantaneous transition would be ideal, but also as obvious: this is impossible due to the lack of infrastructure.

Couldn’t they have announced this before the Holborn and St Pancras by-election?🤔

To be picky: it's not extracting hydrocarbons that contributes to global warming, it's burning hydrocarbons as fuel that's the problem. Our effect on CO2 levels is the same whether we burn North Sea oil or Middle East oil.

How much will it cost to mitigate the damage to our environment from the increased emissions . I never hear this as an argument against digging up more fossil fuel

The UN says the World must cut emissions by 18% in four years… What is holding us back are our political leaders; it’s not only a dereliction of duty, but ecocide. It’s only a matter of time before ecocide becomes something far more sinister.

Time to start rationing

George, there are 23 million households on the country with gas boilers. You're not stupid; you know it will take decades to refit with heat pumps. We are already highly reliant on gas imports. What message does it send other gas producers when we need to ask them for more gas?

The 9th August may have marked the beginning of the end for Britain’s Net Zero ambitions. With war reshaping global energy security, the Government may have little choice but to put climate targets on the back burner. Geopolitics has a habit of rewriting the rules.

The ENTIRE point of mandelsons faction within labour, the people who made sure burnham had a Westminster seat to stand for, and who still run everything, is to privilege special interests. Its how they make money.

The UK squandered the revenues many years ago from these oil fields instead of creating a sovereign wealth fund like Norway...

I expect they’ll be well rewarded for it.

Its also embarrassingly economically illiterate....

Burnham bows to Big Oil. Jackdaw offers negligible benefit (~0.01% of GDP), pathetic energy security & disputed emissions savings. Yet Britain sends the world a clear message: UK FOSSIL FUEL EXPANSION OPEN FOR BUSINESS. A decision that highlights the iron grip of corporate lobbying on UK politics.

Rosebank and oil, I get why 'no'. But we still buy and transport gas to heat our homes. This is closer and we still need it in the short term. We also have a duty to contribute to the security of our nearest neighbours should there be any actions taken by Russia.

I wonder who is benefitting from this? Is it to woe Reform voters?