And if you don't understand how much the continued use of fossil fuels has subsidised the development of renewables and provided breathing space for their development then you don't underst… (View Post)

This is a good point and shows that Starmer may be a far more canny politicians than he is given credit for. But to be honest I think the Government is screwed whatever they do. There best bet in the… (View Post)

Again., stupidly short sighted. Part of the reason for the current energy crisis is that we decided to cut back on oil and gas production long before we could ever have sufficient renewables to fill … (View Post)

I don't know the exact details but it may well be that they sold the fields but retained the liability or the abandonment costs on fields. In a lot of cases in the past companies went bust and t… (View Post)

Morning Nick, apologies I just answered this very point in a posting before I saw your latest comment. No. Sorry it doesn't work that way. Many of the existing fields are economic because we alr… (View Post)