Exactly
@RachelReevesMP
Jobs
Tax
More energy in the system
Local supply cuts CO2
We do need to break our marriage with fossil fuels but we need to also consider our children in the divorce
@Ed_Miliband do the right thing
@Keir_Starmer it would win back votes in May !!
Rachel Reeves has backed drilling in the North Sea in a move set to fuel tensions with Ed Miliband.
The Chancellor said she would be “very happy” to see drilling at two proposed new oil fields because of the positive impact on “jobs and tax revenue”.
Mr Miliband, who has previously ruled out new exploration, is poised to decide on licences for the Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.
‘Even if we drilled every bit of oil and gas out of the North Sea, we wouldn’t be able to set the price of it – and it’s the price that’s going up at the moment – it wouldn’t affect the price of the pumps.
“But it would, of course, create jobs and tax revenue, and that is why, exactly, we continue to support oil and gas for decades to come”
Telegraph.