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What the feck is wrong with this please ! It will create jobs and revenue ffs

It’s a monstrously ignorant decision!

The bribists influence needs to be outlawed, politicians should be subject to the same anti-bribery laws as the rest of us.

Also, we should do both

So much more than what? I bet you I can build much more wind and solar capacity than your nuclear plant will generate in less time.

It’s not approved yet though. We should do what we can to keep opposing & also point out Labour’s weakness in bowing to the right wing parties.

More cowardice from this government. A few ill informed talking heads in the media spouting populace nonsense and we have another U turn. The BBC and print media are too afraid to challenge and point out the facts that our electricity and gas prices are fixed by the markets.

The fossil fuel lobbyists are opening the champagne today. Such a pathetically weak and stupid thing to do from this #Labour #Government bsky.app/profile/beyo...

climate bombs the oil lamps are burning in the last temple oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

Rumours presented as fact.

Why is it exactly that most politicians have a problem with English? Extinction is not the best or only option, why are they so obsessed with trying to achieve it? It’s the height of stupidity & betrayal, in fact let’s be honest, it’s not stupidity, They know the consequences!

Serious question — how much would UK energy security actually change if we *didn't* do new drilling? Most UK gas is still imported, right? Has anyone modeled the impact on prices or imports either way?

Exactly right on this. And the part nobody's talking about is the 2023 UN report saying new oil and gas projects directly undermine net zero goals. Even BP’s own analysis says UK production barely dents global prices.

I get the frustration, but I’ve yet to see solid modeling that new North Sea drilling would meaningfully drop UK bills. Global oil prices set the pace, so local extraction doesn’t really insulate us much.

It’s so bizarre. Ed knows this won’t lower bills. He’s argued against it numerous times. So sad to see this stupid decision from a guy I have liked for a long time.

Where's the £350 a year savings he promised?

Where is the vision, where is the political leadership, the political courage? Instead of looking towards the future and seizing the opportunities that brings, instead of being at the forefront of the green revolution, they seem to prefer wallowing in the past.

Won’t do a thing to improve our situation. Trump and Netanyahu not blowing up Iranians would do far more

Miliband sold out quite a while ago. He was even talking up carbon capture. To get any power under Starmer, you must abandon all principles.

Bullshit headline.... "But amid political pressure during the war in Iran, Whitehall officials say the energy secretary may approve drilling at the gasfield, 150 miles off Aberdeen."

Profit margins are the only thing going up. And its not you or me that'll see the benefits of that revenue stream

What the actual f*ck! I really hope this isn’t true

I am reallybdisappointed in @edmilibandmp.bsky.social. We need to be leaving that stuff in the ground. It's not going anywhere; let our 10x great grandchildren decide what to do with it, should the planet ever stabilise.

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Did you not get the whatsapp message? This week you're supposed to be going after the Green Party for not talking about the environment enough not too much.

This needs to be stopped due to the Climate Emergency. That's not a minor issue but the overarching one.

Onshore renewables are far quicker and cheaper to install than opening up this gas field, and they would last a lot longer. This decision is utterly irresponsible from this government. It’s a knee jerk reaction to the right wing media, and it stinks of desperation.

Apparently. news.sky.com/story/specul...

When you make daft decisions, there is always a price to pay. The price the UK, rather England is paying, is the same as Fantine in Les Mis...selling her hair to cheapy, out of desperation.

I’d still bet on Miliband knowing more about the science in this than you’re giving credit. I suspect he knows more about the reality of energy right now than you. Have you considered that you’re basing your campaigns on the social media platforms doing more to pollute the planet is hypocritical?

We absolutely should be supporting more gas and oil drilling because we are not in a position where we can stop relying on fossil fuels. It's ridiculous to think we can just stop and turn to renewable energy. It's not happening any time soon. We need to be honest with ourselves about this stuff.

Disgusted but not surprised! More proof (if it was needed) that the so called "Labour" party serve corporate lobbyists and big business!!! #VoteGreen 💚

Also how is it the first major gas field to come on stream in a decade, Culzean started up in 2019, 7 years ago.

Ed sold his soul, and Starmer won't even be grateful.

We all know he's personally opposed to this lunacy. Seems like McFadden has gone, but having every policy driven by answering Farage and Badenoch is still very much alive. A government of cowards.

All to please the tories, who sold it all off in the first fucking place, that's why this won't make a blind bit of difference to fuel bills. #thatcher

We have to back Oil Drilling. We have no choice, we are making ourselves poorer when the rest of the world is sticking two fingers up to the green agenda. We are so reliant on oil and we can’t leave ourselves exposed like this.

It's rule by Facebook/X. Labour think that all these DRILL BABY, DRILL memes represent the UK population as a whole. When it all gets used up in a week, we'll be back to square one.

We could build 10 onshore wind farms for £1b. This could power over 600,000 homes. We have the resources and opportunity to create fossil free energy. What we lack is the political will to do it.

This is a pointless measure to pacify people too lazy or stupid to understand how the global fossil fuels market operates.

What did you expect,these bastards are all in the back pockets of the O&G lobbyists.They only care about looking after their sponsors and backers.I'm sick to the back teeth of scum politicians selling out the country,if there's a wrong way to do it labour will find it like their Tory predecessors

Labour's new slogan: Trust us to do the wrong thing, every time! Is anyone surprised?

Gas is needed to fuel the transition to renewables. On top of that the less we are dependent on imports the better in today's world of Trumps and Putins.

Twats.

youtu.be/GnzEZ3IKRxA?... Sorry can’t find the free view

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In this image he certainly doesn’t look very happy.

Labour the party of wasters

A performative rather than necessary act.

It's a crass decision by Milliband, it'll give credence to the right wing drill baby drill loons like Farage & Badenoch. Our energy bills won't come down or give us energy security until we cut ties with the volatile markets

Hey, that`s politics! That`s why I`m an anarchist.

Ed Miliband was the only one left in Labour I had any faith in. That's gone now #VoteGreen

Sold out

How much money is this going to cost the taxpayer? This is yet another disappointment in this government. I hope there is a Green candidate in my constituency!

“In the fight against climate change I think the most Sensible thing to do is punch ourselves in the knackers” - The Sensibles

Seriously, you are supposed to be working together to stop climate change, and the one person in labour you could support is Milliband! Shame on you. Ps. Ind Gaza voter, not a labour supporter!

You're truly blessed you lucky thing !!

Labour sold their soul years ago. Go on the 💚 Greens

Please become Prime Minister and stop this madness. Come on UK, vote Green, its the only way!

@uklabour.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk @edmilliband.bsky.social Please do not give way to oil & gas lobbyists. Our planet is dying, our children’s future is in severe jeopardy 💔 invest in a green clean future 🙏 you know that’s the right thing to do SAVE THE PLANET SAVE YOURSELVES

But it will give more profits to Labour's Millionaire & Corporate donors. All that Labour is now is the red tinged faction of the Millionaire Donor's Party.

Labour are dead. No need for flowers. Starmer has already buried the Party. Vote Green or Your Party. Plaid or SNP as appropriate.

Miliband was the only* Starmer Cabinet member who I thought might not be a Blue Labour clone, Maggie Thatcher admirer, or sponsored oligarch asset. Proved wrong! There is nobody of principle or value left! *Raynor is still there. The only one not handpicked by the charlatan Keir. Vote Green!

What a misleading headline! The article actually says “Whitehall officials say the energy secretary *may* approve drilling at the gasfield…*If* it goes ahead, the company said it could produce six per cent of the UK’s future gas supply from this winter” Gas central heating is still v widely used.

Thank you Ed, for making it clear that you are not the leader to resuscitate our faith in Labour.

The volumes involved are trivial in terms of their impact on climate change. Try to be just a little realistic. China is in the process of building a new batch of coal fired power stations that will do far more harm. You'd achieve more by banning Chinese EVs.

Noooooooo ☹️😱

Call the elections. About time the U turn party were ousted

This despite the fact that hundreds of licenses granted by the Tories raised a grand total of 36 days of gas. What a waste, especially after the storage announcement which was genuinely good news.

I think the rest of the world are waiting to see if we have smartened up in 214 days?

I much agree. Milliband would have talks with Zack and Zack the Party before Ed would resign and cross the floor. Aparently several Labour MPs are already talking to him but unable to get a guarantee that the local members would reselect them at the general election. It is a sticking point.

Bryony knows the score!! Well said !!

FFS so the UK is totally in thrall to the USA and petroleum companies. Fuck oil we need more renewables and electrification of our world. Why be held hostage by a few countries and corporations? Micro nuclear, hydrothermal, hydrogen, wind, tidal, hydroelectric, solar, the UK can have it all.

They should have named this find Schroedingers. Schroedingers gas field, somehow simultaneously too small to make a material difference to gas imports, but also so large it's a climate disaster....

Britain doesn’t have enough refineries which is the main reason exporting more than 80% of oil & gas already being drilled from near depleted North Sea Basin, that’s why most of our gas is imported from Norway. Plus costs more money to drill for fossil fuel than to build diverse energy renewables.

Kier Hardie would turn in his grave.

Betrayal morphing into reality.

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Erm...

The greens will promise the world knowing they never have to deliver 😂

Starmer and Company are going to claim this is a temporary solution to keep our energy generation up during the crisis and transition. Expect there isn't really a transition happening because its seen as too much bother to update infrastructure. Nothing is more permanent that a temporary solution.

I'd like to know how much Labour received in "donations" (bribes) to influence this decision.

we need new nuclear power plants! new solar panels and wind farms. new sources of energy that give the UK independence and clean air!

The rot has to stop.

Ed letting us down just like his big brother

Fecking Shameful ¡

They should try and make a new and better relationship with putin like all the smarts do. Go greens

FFS I thought he was one of the good guys 😔

This is disappointing 😔

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This will be the same Labour Party, along with the Tories and Lib Dems, that lied before the Scottish independence referendum of 2014 to the effect that the resources of the North Sea were running out.

This actually makes me want to cry. It's the polar opposite of what we need, which is further UKGov commitments to renewables over fossil fuels giving confidence to encourage inward investment, onshoring our supply chain and making us less susceptible to future fossil fuel shocks. So short-sighted.

And he won't even do something "clever", like obliging the output to be sold into the UK market at a cost plus price, or a capped price or anything that begins to move us away from global oil markets...

Why are they too stupid to listen to the scientists? Man’s greed will be the end of us.

I don't think new licenses will even start producing in the urgent short term, and most privately drilled north sea fuels are exported anyway. Putting those resources into accelerated renewables and grid upgrades will get better results and build infrastructure worth keeping.

I'm a Green Party member, but we must stick to facts and not kick up outrage just for the sake of scoring points over Labour. That is the tactics of Farage - don't sink to his level.

Crooked

Miliband does not belong in Labour. It's more obvious every day and not only because he is a zionist, ie a racist, supporter of a colonial terrorist genocidal and antisemitic foreign State.

Scotland generates more than twice the electricity it uses, 73% from renewables. We supply england with power too. We get screwed by england, scotland should have some of the lowest energy bills in the world but we are about the highest. Our reasources are plundered our wealth stolen, by England

Surely, if ever there was a time to go all out for renewable energy it has got to be NOW