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Jackdaw approved, should Rosebank be too?

TheCatWoman

I feel mixed about more drilling in the North Sea and I don't like the idea of more extraction and the environmental impacts of fosil fuel use, but I can see that we need gas and that it's better to get it from closer to home, although it will only give us 2% of our gas.

I do not agree with Rosebank being opened, I get that with whats going on in the Middle East is a problem, but any oil thats extracted will be sold on the open market and will do nothing to the cost of domestic oil and petrol prices.

What say you folks?

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  • I don't see it as necessary. Like you say, we'll pay the global price anyway. Thanks, Maggie.

    Labour did good things with the trains. I used to get coaches to airports - long journey times and discomfort - because trains were so much more expensive. Now, I can just get the train.

    That's because Labour put money into the railways. Would be nice if they out even more money into renewable energy sources.

    I'm in Germany right now and, as I travel about, I always see so much more focus on renewable energy from the train. Wind turbines and solar fields. There's less wind turbines in Bavaria than up north, and I read that's because Bavaria had a policy that limited how close wind turbines could be to villages, and Bavaria has a lot of villages. I ask you, how often do you really see renewable installations in the UK? In my home town, the Tory MP actively blocked a wind farm off shore. Why? Because he had major interests in oil firms.

    So much more could be done by the UK, but I can't help feel Labour are pandering a bit to the right wing parties.

    I could, of course, be wrong. Just my thoughts.

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  • I don't see it as necessary. Like you say, we'll pay the global price anyway. Thanks, Maggie.

    Labour did good things with the trains. I used to get coaches to airports - long journey times and discomfort - because trains were so much more expensive. Now, I can just get the train.

    That's because Labour put money into the railways. Would be nice if they out even more money into renewable energy sources.

    I'm in Germany right now and, as I travel about, I always see so much more focus on renewable energy from the train. Wind turbines and solar fields. There's less wind turbines in Bavaria than up north, and I read that's because Bavaria had a policy that limited how close wind turbines could be to villages, and Bavaria has a lot of villages. I ask you, how often do you really see renewable installations in the UK? In my home town, the Tory MP actively blocked a wind farm off shore. Why? Because he had major interests in oil firms.

    So much more could be done by the UK, but I can't help feel Labour are pandering a bit to the right wing parties.

    I could, of course, be wrong. Just my thoughts.

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