This is nuts!-----“The UK government has confirmed it will end new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, making it the world’s largest economy to do so.

To support this transition, the government will introduce Transitional Energy Certificates to enable such production and has committed £20 million to establish a North Sea Jobs Service to support workers in transitioning to new industries.” - Daniel Jupp

However, the government will allow limited oil and gas production through "tie-back" projects linked to existing fields, provided no new exploration is involved...

• They have destroyed thousands of jobs then set aside 20 million pounds to retrain high skilled oil workers to stack shelves in Tescos, if they are lucky.
• We are also paying Norway 40 billion a year for oil and gas from the North Sea that we refuse to extract...