Helena Horton
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303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Aug
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to make a gigantic difference to um global emissions, quite frankly.
But it is a lot and um significant enough that the Climate Change Committee said that approving new oil and gas fields at all
would tip us over the edge when it comes to meeting our climate commitments.
Yes.
So they said no new licenses.
Okay.
And this is something that the government will jump on your neck if you say that they're approving the licenses to drill Rosebank and Jackdaw.
So the licenses were already approved by, as you said, Boris Johnson and Rishu Sunak respectively.
At the time Labour, particularly Ed Millerband, um railed against it and called it climate vandalism.
However, when the license is approved, the final step before they can start drilling is consent.
So it's not a new license, it's a new consent.
So it's based on this very technical reading of the manifesto pledge, which probably was written to give a bit of wriggle room just in case.
Yeah.
But basically the consent is not when the Secretary of State goes, Okay, now you can use the licence that we gave you.
Yes, including Dal Vince, Labour donor.
Yeah.
And uh even octopus energy CEO Greg Jackson, who has been responsible for quite a lot of the renewable uptake.
Like if you're on octopus, most of your energy will come from renewables.
Well, it wasn't hugely surprising.
I think he's trying to get some more influence within Andy Burnham's team and therefore he's gonna go where the wind is blowing, and all of the indicators are that at least one of these probably Jack Dor will get approved.
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