| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 21:30 - Jun 8 with 957 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Haha...nothing to do with pissing off Jeremy Hunt then. |  |
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| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 21:34 - Jun 8 with 936 views | MattinLondon |
And if people protest about it then all hell breaks out.
How does this tie in with the country committed to being carbon neutral by 2050? |  | | |
| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 21:38 - Jun 8 with 920 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Presumably if this is onshore it’s fracking? Not clear from the article?
Only exploration - be surprised if it’s economically viable even at $120 bbn. |  | | |
| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 21:42 - Jun 8 with 904 views | Swansea_Blue |
The Tories ALWAYS put the interest of investors, backers or company owners ahead of the environment (and workers, but that’s another story). The amount of greenwash they employ is second only to the amount of gullible people who think they care about the environment. |  |
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| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 23:01 - Jun 8 with 824 views | Swansea_Blue |
| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 21:38 - Jun 8 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Presumably if this is onshore it’s fracking? Not clear from the article?
Only exploration - be surprised if it’s economically viable even at $120 bbn. |
According to the company's own blurb, it's conventional drilling. Still doesn't sit right with me. We need an energy strategy fit for the 21st and 22nd Centuries, not routed in the oil rush of 1850s America.
They've had a chance to look at kicking off the next generation of tidal lagoons that would have lifespans of 60-120 years, but have passed that by. There were issues with cost and due diligence wrt to the proposer, but not insurmountable. They kicked the Swansea scheme into the long grass because the strike price of £154/MWH was 3x the cost of wind. Yet wind was more expensive than this a decade ago, showing how much prices can come down as the technology matures. Swansea could have been operational soon (originally planned for 2020, then shifted to 2023) had it got the go ahead initially, providing enough energy to power 11% of Wales' homes.
Still, at least there are plans afoot to grow offshore wind, which makes sense environmentally and economically (it make sense before the current increases in oil prices, so now even more so - the tidal option looks increasingly attractive economically as oil/gas prices rise and energy security becomes more an issue).
As for this Surrey case, I wouldn't at all be surprised if there's a Tory link - nepotism and/or donors tend to dominate decisions. | |
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| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 23:30 - Jun 8 with 790 views | HARRY10 |
"Tory government decisions to cut “green crap” and block “unsightly” new onshore wind farms are now costing households an extra £140 a year on their energy bills amid soaring gas prices, according to a new estimate."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/energy-bills-windfarms-renewab
Thankfully we had a politician with foresight, the bloater himself - Windbag the Failure.
'Johnson, who slagged off the effectiveness of wind farms in 2013 when he suggested they couldn’t “pull the skin off a rice pudding, and also argued the country should “look at” the opportunity of shale gas.'
Nevermind, it's not as if Tories fcked up on wind power after that
"About 250 planned onshore wind farms are likely to be cancelled because of an early end to subsidies, the government has said.
New onshore wind farms will be excluded from a subsidy scheme from 1 April 2016, a year earlier than expected.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said this was likely to mean 2,500 planned turbines would not be built." | | | |
| More oil drilling approved, huzzah! on 08:36 - Jun 9 with 597 views | EdwardStone |
Many years ago I worked for an oil exploration company, maybe 1988
We were doing further investigations on a large oil field that sits under large parts of Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex.
Even at that time there were live oil wells pumping at Kimmeridge in Dorset and Singleton in Sussex.
The financial viability of an oil field is a factor of ease of extraction and price of oil; the higher the price the more viable extraction becomes.
This does ingore the inconvenient fact that we are hurtling towards eco-oblivion |  | | |
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