Helena Horton

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303 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Today in Focus · Drill Andy drill? Burnham’s North Sea dilemma · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And it depends on the oil and gas price as well at the time.

But I think it definitely will bring in some tax receipts to the Treasury.

And yeah, that is an argument.

And also it's saying Britain's open for business.

It's it might give us a short kind of

Bump to the markets.

It might slightly reduce our borrowing costs for a small period of time.

So Burnham can point to those figures.

But in reality, I think in terms of the economic argument and the climate argument, in terms of just the myopic look at the two oil and gas fields by themselves, it's quite a small difference.

I think that the argument around this is largely symbolic on both sides.

And symbolism's important.

I mean, you wanna be able to walk out on the stage at COP and say we've shut down our oil and gas and we want y you to do it as well.

But we're not just talking about symbolism anymore because we we're in an energy crisis.

I don't think there's any way that he won't do either of them.

I think at least Jack Daw, the the w the gas one is going to get approved.

That's what most people are saying.

The smart money is on yes to Jack Daw, no to Rose Bank, 'cause the latter is mostly oil and gas is what we mostly use as a country.

But the thing is Equinore has spent a lot of money developing Rosbank and it does send a message, I mean, in terms of the business argument.

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