Have your say in the UK’s oil & gas decision: No New Drilling

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Have your say in the UK’s oil & gas decision: No New Drilling

Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer

This is it: we are on the brink of stopping new oil and gas drilling for good.

The government has paused approving new fields while it examines how to regulate new drilling - and it is asking us, the public, what we think should happen.

This consultation will be crucial in deciding the government’s regulatory approach to billions of barrels of oil and gas in the North Sea and the catastrophic impacts they would have.

Within the next year, we could see the UK government listen to the public and commit to ending new oil and gas production, stopping Rosebank and moving towards a just transition. Or we could deepen our dependence on dirty expensive fossil fuels.

If we create enough pressure around these consultations, we could see the UK take the decisive leap of moving away from fossil fuels. It’s hard to believe but this moment is very much within our grasp.

We need to make it impossible to ignore that people want climate action and affordable energy now - the first step is to stop new drilling and speed up the energy transition.

Help make sure that the government sticks to its commitments to tackling the climate crisis, and stands on the side of people over the interests of oil & gas bosses.

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To: Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer
From: [Your Name]

We, the undersigned, believe that the UK Government must:

1. Stop new drilling. The UK government needs to stop allowing oil and gas companies to open up new drilling sites in UK waters, including new projects like Rosebank. It’s not fair that, while the rest of us are trying to do our bit for the climate, a handful of oil and gas companies are allowed to push the world past safe climate limits just to make more profit.

2. End new licensing. The government needs to deliver on its promise to stop handing out new licences to explore for even more oil and gas. The world has already discovered far more fossil fuels than are safe to burn. New licensing, which is expected to produce less than 4 days of extra gas a year on average, won’t protect jobs or boost UK energy security. We need the government to tell the industry enough, and no more.

3. Come up with a plan for workers, supply chains and communities. New oil and gas drilling isn’t the answer for the UK’s energy workforce, which has seen the number of jobs supported by the oil and gas industry more than halve in the past decade as the North Sea declines. What supply chains, workers, and their communities need is a coherent and properly financed plan from government to create good quality, clean energy jobs in the places that need them most, and then help for oil and gas workers to transition into them.