Helena Horton

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

But America is becoming more of a player in this.

And they obviously frack their gas, which is very, very environmentally damaging and releases a huge amount more emissions from the actual process of fracking than drilling in the North Seawood.

And also they it gets converted into LNG, which is like the liquid form of the gas, and then it has to get shipped over here.

So it's really bad for the environment.

So there is an argument that's made that if we produced more here, we'd be

less reliant on the LNG from the US.

Others argue that any oil and gas produced would be used anyway, so if we

drill for more, then we're adding more to the global amount of oil and gas that's burnt.

There I mean that that is an argument that people make.

Also the argument that we we are supposed to be global leaders and we're going to go to COP in November and which is the the big climate conference that that all the countries in the world apparently apart from Trump are going to go to.

if we're gonna tell developing countries you're not allowed to make yourselves richer and more prosperous and happier by drilling for um your fossil fuels to keep them in the ground, but then we're out consenting new yeah oil and gas fields, it's not a very good look.

It's about the global positioning of the UK on the world stage when it comes to climate commitments.

It's setting the kind of direction of travel for the Burnham government.

It could show the green companies around the world whether or not we're invested in terms of the green tech.

But I do think it does pose a question for whether or not he's going to keep those voters who went to the Green Party under Starmer but came back to him because they think he's more left wing than Keir Starmer, I suppose.

Obviously these people really care about the environment and will be furious if he consents these um oil and gas fields.

Eighty percent of the public are worried about climate change, probably more than that last after last week, uh particularly with the emergency alert and the um wildfires.

And a sixty percent support the net zero policy of the government.

quite a large amount of the public are pro climate action.

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