Oil Giant Shell Warns Cutting Production “Dangerous and Irresponsible”
Cutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC.
Wael Sawan insisted that the world still “desperately needs oil and gas” as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it.
He warned increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again.
Mr. Sawan angered climate scientists who said Shell’s plan to continue current oil production until 2030 was wrong.
Professor Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist at the University of Cambridge, said firms such as Shell should focus on accelerating the green transition “rather than trying to suggest the most vulnerable in society are in any way best served by prolonging our use of oil and gas”.
Head of the UN António Guterres recently said investment in new oil and gas production was “economic and moral madness”.
Mr Sawan told the BBC: “I respectfully disagree.” He added: “What would be dangerous and irresponsible is cutting oil and gas production so that the cost of living, as we saw last year, starts to shoot up again.”
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What on earth is a ‘Climate Scientist’.. are they some sort of newly minted cult whose favourite number is 97???
As for that despicable little Portuguese.. Antonio Gutbucket.. well he would say that wouldn’t he. Odious little globalist creep.
Keep speaking the truth Shell, us ordinary folks need all the help we can get to stave off a (planned) total collapse of our economy, and hence our lives..
I wouldn’t bank on Shell to tell the truth, since Big Oil invented the corporatist world. But they’re no worse than the others, and I trust them more when they’re swimming against the tide than when they’re greenwashing.
Oh.. I don’t trust them Jon, far from it, but what he’s stated regarding gas and oil most definitely needed saying to the green crazies who are hell bent on destroying our societies..
likewise the defence industry, unlike Pharma,the “Green energy people”, the defence industry doesn’t pretend to be something that its not.
Pharma and the climate lobby are worse than the defence industry because they are killing us whilst pretending to “care” for us.
But there is only one truth you need to know, and that is that without fossil fuels you would be back in the stoneage where so called environmentalists would be rushing about telling you that we are running out of stones.
Lookup “The East India Company”.
A ” Climate Scientist”????? You mean a government funded data adjuster and computer modeller who sticks assumptions and guesses into a model where many of the parameters are either poorly understood or totally unknown and then runs off to politicians with their “findings” and government hand them their brown envelope and declare “we must act now and follow the science”—–Except as you and I both know models are NOT science and are NOT evidence of anything.
I reckon you’ve described a CS to a T varmint..
I don’t think you need to be Shell’s CEO to know that destroying our fossil fuel sources is ‘Dangerous and Irresponsible’.It’s criminal our political class don’t understand that obvious truth.
Sturgeon and the SNP actually wanted to pour concrete in the wells in a kind of eco socialist scorched earth policy. It is difficult to find the right words for such brainwashed imbeciles that would not get my comment removed rather swiftly.
Professor Emily Shuckburgh appears not to have made the leap that the technolgies to achieve nett zero, dont exist, or are plainly so expensive that they make a total mockery of her views of the ‘Most vulnerable in our society’. I wonder if she’s ever met a working class person, other than the cleaning, security and catering at the University. Does she have anything to try and convince us other than hysterical rhetoric. Not even a graph..? Poor…
She’s a mathematical modeller, not even a scientist
WEF associate too
Shuckburgh, Guterres and all the other eco-loons that are madly in favour of renewables need to spend next winter having to choose between heating and eating then people might take them seriously.
Proudly wearing my Shell Horizon 3 tee-shirt today. Should have another printed: “Shell: finding the energy to keep incubators running and paying taxes to fund your NHS since 1907. P.S. All you protesters living on benefits: You’re welcome”
I didn’t think common sense was allowed in discussions on the climate crisis! How long before he is silenced I wonder?
Shuckburgh as no one will be surprised is a member of the World economic forum. Now whenever I read about one of these “let them eat cake”, top of the Caste society people I check if they have appeared at the WEF, just like the monster Halpen who stated this week we all have been calibrated by him to accept lockdowns and masks, he is another member. We are lucky that the 4th Reich members can now all be identified by the club they belongs to, perhaps one day a President will outlaw this organisation and call the members what they are, Global terrorists.
Ofcom got Mark Steyn booted off GB News for comments such as yours. I would watch your back if I were you before you get whisked off to the climate gulag.
I wonder if me and a few buddies invaded Wimbledon with “JUST START OIL” T-shirts on if our feet would ever touch the ground? NOPE. We would be whisked off to the climate gulag and never to see the light of day again.
I’m sure if you looked ‘sincere’ enough varmint you’d be whisked off for strawberry’s and cream.. and maybe a scone.. 😉
No scones and cream for me Will. You only get those topped with strawberries if you are anti fossil fuels. ——–You know those fuels that heat our houses, power our cars and machinery and doubled our life expectancy.
These climate crisis people are going to cause a calamity the western world has never seen if they continue with their radical obsession. Socialists in the last century in Soviet Union and in China caused famine with their poorly thought out policies resulting in millions starving to death. They are quite capable in their radical views to cause it again and also add freezing to death to the totals. Collapse of supply chains and inability to produce sufficient food for those living will happen if petroleum products are stopped. These people are insane and have no idea what they are doing.
Here is some simple maths you can give to the middle class virtue signallers : Coal, Oil and gas are used because they are cheaper ways of producing energy. If we switch to “renewables” costs for the production for everything, especially food, will increase because less will be produced. We in the rich West will be able to pay more for our food while those in the third world will starve to death in their millions as food is shipped out of their countries and into Europe and the USA.
Now, do you still think we should stop using coal, oil and gas?