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Keeping it in the ground as a strategic reserve makes more sense given we will need gas for fertiliser etc for decades in the future.

Did you forget what the post you're responding to actually said? Why not go read it again?

You are assuming it ends with jackdaw. This is all about making the unacceptable acceptable. Once Jackdaw is opened, they will try for more.

Apart from the fact it wont lower the price, because prices are set internationally. This only works if you nationalise the sector and force the setting of the price.

I think that unfortunately if it wasn't approved then the death cult that has become our right wing press would incessantly link the energy cost increase from trumps Iran war to net zero and reduce support. I don't like it, but I can see the practicality.

In the Big Bad World, isn't there a good case for saying we have to exploit every reserve as it becomes economically viable, so we're not a target to hostile actors later?

27 jobs I think?

As I was saying:

Jackdaw’s problem is not only its emissions. It has no visible bill mechanism: no cheaper wholesale power, lower network charge or smaller tax levy follows from approving it.

Are you familiar with the old Scottish expression: “many a mickle makes a muckle”?

Garbage comment

True, unless we break ties with shell and Equinor and build our own refinery capacity. That won’t happen.

I do not see how a uk energy source can fail to increase its energy security. It might not have much effect, but nor does any single wind farm.

It always matters cumulatively. More emissions from JD, more from missing HP target/pulling back on BUS, more from scrapping ECO, more from delaying ZEV mandate. Each is another hole in the carbon budgets they have to exist within.

I dont know i think its quite clever political . It spikes kemi useless and her client press attacks on not trying to get cheap energy and appease some union members tempted to vote reform instead of labour. As for the rest of us, there are other issues

It was approved in 2022. Burnham just accepting the fact.

It is piped into uk

If it wont make any difference why bother?

So get them busy building those things rather than a gas field.

🤦 27 FTE jobs from Jackdaw. 1% of peak winter demand

Won't bring jobs and brings very little in tax revenue, it will secure gas supply in the short term though, James is wrong there. This is very much a short term fix to prevent supply shock this winter and nothing more.

It's too little to make a noticeable difference to anything. Like 3 grains more sugar in your tea. WGAF. Get your electricity from UK renewables >electrify everything > never have to bow to foreign despots again> sing GSTK in our glorious utopia

I disagree. Combating climate change is fundamentally about removing demand. There's no point shutting our own supply down then buying from other countries. It's like someone deciding to become a vegetarian by closing their local abattoir but not actually stopping eating meat.

The gas can - and will - be sold on the open market.

We have massive reserves already though.

Have you seen what is happening in the Americas? 1 gas and 1 oil field in the North Sea are completely dwarfed by méga projects in Argentina, Venezuela, Suriname and GoM. May as well get some local jobs.