“North Sea Oil Workers Cannot be Sacrificed on the Altar of Net Zero”: Unions Go to War on Labour’s “Irresponsible” Green Policy
“North Sea oil workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero,” the Unite union has told Labour as it launches a campaign against the party’s “irresponsible” green agenda. Ross Clark in the Spectator has more.
In a move which has been remarkably underreported in England, the union Unite has launched a campaign against Labour’s policy of refusing licences for new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
The campaign, called ‘No ban without a plan’, demands that Labour suspends the policy. If successful, it means a future Labour Government would continue, like the Conservatives, to grant new licences, until it has come up with a plan to create at least 35,000 new ‘energy transition jobs’ in Scotland – equivalent to the current roles held by oil workers. The union’s General Secretary Sharon Graham has accused Keir Starmer of following a policy which would allow Britain to “be held to ransom by Saudi Arabia or other nations” and adds:
“Labour needs to pull back from this irresponsible policy. There is clearly no viable plan for the replacement of North Sea jobs or energy security… Unite will not stand by and let workers be thrown on the scrapheap. North Sea workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero.”
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All the Chickens come home to roost;
In so many ways this net-zero stuff is starting to get gritty. Politically it will be tricky as so many people have been scared almost as witless over net-zero as they were over covid and will howl with rage and horror at any attempt to row back on any net-zero targets. And yet the pain, devastation and immiseration that net-zero will cause, will become ever more apparent.
Is there any main stream UK politician who openly expresses the view that human induced climate change is a scam and a myth? If not, then they will just turn off North Sea oil the same as they turned off British Steel, as someone once said; will the last person to leave please turn the lights off! Although in fact that may not be necessary as there will probably be a power blackout by then.
Good comment…..and all true. But I had to look up “immiseration”. I might use that word myself now.
Labour Mps are all low practical intellect, totalitarian fantasists. Will impoverish us
The whole country is to be sacrificed on the alter of NET ZERO. Not just these Union members. The political establishment of Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens are fully onboard with NET ZERO, a policy that pretends to be about saving the planet but is actually about lowering living standards in line with the UN agenda 21 and 2030 that thinks the lifestyles of the affluent middle classes are “too high”. It is claimed that the western world has become prosperous by using up more than our fair share of the fossil fuels in the ground and that this must STOP. Our own politicians agree and waved NET ZERO through Parliament without any debate and without even a vote. These are the politicians that we have all been voting for and they are a total disgrace. It is good to see that at least one bunch of people are fighting back against this absurdity and we should all realise that oil and gas is something we are going to need for a very long time and not extracting it in the UK is a sell out to the pretend to save the planet politics of the UN and WEF.
You will own nothing and be very, very unhappy.
Notice always the regular one red thumbs down from a coward with no guts to say why they don’t agree.
Dear UK politicians, I’m sure this person is the exception rather than the rule, as most Palestinians have proven that they can without a shadow of a doubt coexist peacefully amongst others who do not share their ideological beliefs, especially those that are Jewish. The more ‘refugees’ from over there the better for British society as a whole, I reckon. Not sure how many doctors and engineers you’d get but they certainly put an interesting spin on ‘rocket scientist’ should you ever have a skills shortage. Best of luck with your Palestinian visa scheme. British society will endeavour to achieve new heights of cultural enrichment as a direct result of your policies. Just take a look at Mayor Khant’s London as a shining example of what can be accomplished when maximum multiculturalism is the focus; ”A 35-year-old man who was arrested for vandalism and destruction inside a University of Amsterdam building earlier this week was identified as a Palestinian individual, born in Jordan, and who arrived in the Netherlands last year seeking asylum. He has denied the accusations against him, his attorney told NOS on Friday. He was remanded into custody by a magistrate while the investigation continues. Police alleged the man… Read more »
Furthermore, a 3° C rise in global temperatures – WTF is that – by 2100, by which time everybody currently on the planet will be dead anyway, will lead to a 50% reduction in GDP or some such bollox.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
The Groan if you hadn’t guessed.
Yes but a rise of 3 C is based on worst case scenario modelling, but we know that their expensive models have all been wrong up till now so why should they be right 75 years from now? And you are correct, all of their projections are always for away in the future when no one will be alive to say “You were wrong again”. But ofcourse by that time all of their Net Zero stuff will have been put in place and those that are alive will never remember the predictions from 2024
Their ‘modelling’ can’t even predict tomorrow’s weather accurately so in what possible way can it predict the next 75 years?!
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Thank you, Unite! You are fighting for us all. Are you the only ones left standing?
Any ‘green’ jobs created will be abroad or, if in Britain, heavily subsidised so not proper jobs.
Same in the steel industry, 1000 ‘green’ jobs created, but 3 times as many proper jobs made redundant and no ability to produce British virgin steel.
One of the first things potty Starmer intends to do is scrap the eminently successful strike laws. Oh dear, day one he will start digging his own grave. If he thinks the Unions won’t strike because Labour are in power then he has read little of his parties history. I predict, if he scrapes in, he will be faced with mass, prolonged strikes within 2 years.
I’m voting Reform and I 100% believe it will be a hung Parliament slightly in the Tories favour. Every vote for Reform will count, we may get a slice of the Power Pie. Nobody really wants Red or Blue and nobody, including Starmer, knows what Labour intend.
A good analysis. I think the SNP and Galloway’s party could take seats from Labour if they organise themselves and speak up for the workers over the nut zero lunacy.
“Irresponsible” is far too polite.