From DAILY SKEPTIC
BY WILL JONES
“North Sea oil workers must not be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero,” the Unite union told Labor as it launched a campaign against the party’s “irresponsible” green agenda. Ross Clark at the Spectator has more.
In a move that has been remarkably unreported in England, the Unite union has launched a campaign against Labor's policy of denying licenses for new oil and gas development in the North Sea.
The campaign, called 'No Ban Without a Plan', calls for Labor to suspend the policy. If successful, this means a future Labor government such as the Conservatives would continue to award new licenses until it delivers a plan to create at least 35,000 new “energy transition jobs” in Scotland – equivalent to the current positions held by oil workers . The union's general secretary, Sharon Graham, has accused Keir Starmer of pursuing policies that would allow Britain to be “held to ransom by Saudi Arabia or other nations”, adding:
“Labour must withdraw from this irresponsible policy. There is clearly no viable plan for North Sea job replacement or energy security… Unite will not sit idly by while workers are thrown into the trash. North Sea workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero.”
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