Helena Horton
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303 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Aug
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But his he's more concerned about the price of energy.
So he's been asking for a long time for the electricity price to be decoupled from the gas price.
So when the gas price is really high, even if there's there's a wind blowing, we still pay the same amount for electricity as we would for gas.
He wants them to be decoupled so when there's lots of wind, we pay a huge amount less for electricity.
And he's arguing that okay, fine, we can license these new oil fields and gas fields, but if we do that we need to look at how we pay for energy.
No, we'd have to change the law and requisition the assets of, yeah, as you say, um, global companies and sell them at a price that they don't want to sell, which I mean, some people might be in favour of that, but it'd be quite like a extreme thing in terms of the global kind of capitalist economy that we're in to do.
And I don't know how many companies would want to invest in the UK if we'd say
Oh, actually we can just take your company at any time and um, you know, requisition your assets and sell them at whatever price we like.
So
The point is it's not who they're owned by.
Yeah.
It's that any oil and gas is sold on international markets.
They're sold at a global price.
Um the global price is set by the availability of oil and gas worldwide.
So it wouldn't make a difference to energy bills.
Yeah.
I mean, it might make a small difference to security of supply.
So that's a b that's a big issue.
At the moment we import sixty eight percent of our gas.
And most of that is from Norway, which is quite clean and it's next door to us in the North Sea, as clean as oil and gas goes, obviously.
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