Conservative Leader Vows to End Ban on Oil and Gas Licenses

Conservative Leader Vows to End Ban on Oil and Gas Licenses

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will pledge to make North Sea oil a “cornerstone” of the UK economy amid concerns producers have “much more to do” to reduce carbon emissions in the coming decades.  In a speech to the Society of Petroleum Engineers Offshore Europe conference in Scotland, Badenoch will tell industry officials that she would like to see as much oil and gas extracted from the area as possible.  Badenoch will blame the Labour…

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Conservative leader to make North Sea oil and gas 'cornerstone of the economy'

A Tory government would make North Sea oil and gas the “cornerstone” of the economy, Kemi Badenoch will pledge, as she hit out at Labour for treating the sector as a “relic of the past”.

Badenoch slams Labour for treating oil and gas sector as a ‘relic of the past’

Badenoch will pledge to make North Sea oil and gas the ‘cornerstone’ of the economy

Badenoch pledges to make North Sea oil and gas ‘cornerstone’ of UK economy

Conservative leader pledges to end 'Labour's ban' on new oil and gas licences.