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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lmao when the Germans tried to bomb chippies deep in the Yorkshire Dales

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine calling yourselves the 'centre for british /progress/' and lobbying for more North Sea drilling as the answer to the Uk's woes 🤦‍♀️

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW INVESTIGATION – this summer saw temperature records smashed around the UK. We asked NHS trusts in England and Wales how many operations they were forced to cancel due to overheating surgical theatres They provided details of 1,110 operations that were called off in the May and June heatwaves

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 09/09/2026

With the UK continental shelf running out of oil and gas, the North Sea economy is on life support. On the North Sea Transition Authority’s projections, combined oil and gas output will fall a further 40 per cent between 2024 and 2030, and by 93 per cent by 2050.

Oil and gross gas production, outturn and North Sea Transition Authority projections,
million tonnes of oil equivalent: UK Continental Shelf.
Production peaked in 1999 at 4.5
million barrels of oil equivalent a day but had fallen to a touch above 1 million by 2024, a decline of 76 per cent.
On the North Sea Transition Authority’s projections, combined oil and gas output will fall a
further 40 per cent between 2024 and 2030, and by 93 per cent by 2050 – to under 100,000
barrels of oil equivalent a day.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not now El Nino driven food inflation shock, we’re busy with the Strait related energy inflation shock.

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He who has tired of London has not yet seen a morris dancing performance at Crossness Pumping Station, complete with fatberg mascot

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's pretty poor form for Any Questions to have a literal oil and gas lobbyist on the panel, surely?

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

[idly] I wonder how that plan is going?

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎯 by @morganj0nes.bsky.social "The “Burnham bounce” has been all about the return of these progressive voters. If the Prime Minister wants to keep his standing in the polls, it will be unhelpful, to say the least, to be perceived as being poor on climate." www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

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North Sea drilling could threaten Andy Burnham's green credentials

The prospect of new licenses for oil and gas drilling is not a big vote mover in and of itself. Seen in a climate change context, it could be, howe...

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finding this disclosure particularly troubling.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026

In addition, our scientists assessed how this summer’s warmth would compare in future global warming levels and found that this summer’s warmth would be around average for a UK summer in a world 2.5 - 3°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. 🧵

Graphic on UK 2026 summer average temperature compared to future global warming levels. Violin plots show projected UK summer temperatures at 2.0°C, 2.5°C and 3.0°C global warming. A red line marks the 2026 UK summer average temperature at around 16.5°C, which is warmer than the median projected temperature at 2.0°C and 2.5°C warming, and close to the median at 3.0°C warming.

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“It now takes less than half the number of people to produce the same amount of oil and gas as it did at the start of the shale boom,” said Kevin Book at ClearView Energy Partners" www.ft.com/content/f060...

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The missing piece in Trump’s oil and gas boom: jobs

Production and profits are rising strongly but industry employment has fallen since Trump came to power

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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New post: With climate change now visible all around us opponents of action are changing tack. Dismantling their new attacks helps identify a hidden structure in political argument that is often used to try and kill popular + necessary policies. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/how-to-kil...

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How to kill a popular policy

Opposing action to tackle climate change is getting tricker.

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This article is utter garbage because it never mentions demand, it never mentions composition of 'traders' portfolios (more LNG, less pipe) and it buried this 2/3 of the way down in an article with 'panic' in the headline. Shameful gutter nonsense. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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I suppose it's like EVs, where the case is really strong for getting this tech into the hands of heavy users first - for emissions and productivity benefits

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worth £15.7k in wages according to one Australian restaurant owner in the article!

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"The proposed storage obligation in the letter risks giving the oil and gas industry precisely the get-out clause it has repeatedly sought: expand fossil-fuel production today and promise to capture the consequences tomorrow." 🎯

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The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric

Very cool - switching from gas to electric induction cuts kitchen temperatures by 10 degrees, cuts hob cleaning times from 24mins to 21 seconds, cuts energy use by 2/3rds (a 9k saving in one pub) and yes - wok hei is still possible www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

which actually ...kinda fair? it's pretty impressive

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The most funky stuff is of course the CCS angle. Offshore O&G is a competitive place for investment, why would you spend (and lose money) on a CCS hell scape rather than say low cost offshore African development? Conclusion: you wouldn't. And the article does kind of mention it's unviable.

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Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the goal, not extracting them, dispersing the carbon to the atmosphere and hoping we can capture it back later. We already have great clean tech which can displace far more carbon with far less risk. Let's use them.

And while CCS is a proven tech on a small scale, and will be needed in certain industries, even Equinor has only stored 20m tonnes of CO2, as Jacobs says. It is aiming for total storage capacity of 30-50m tonnes/year by 2035. Rosebank alone is 254m tonnes of CO2e, nvm other projects this would allow

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3.It's a boring point but there is no governance framework to make sure companies actually meet their CCS obligations, no way to verify it, no way to make sure it's additional. Rosebank is nearing the final stages of its application - it's far too late to construct the policy architecture you'd need

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(NB, why should the UK billpayer/taxpayer actually PAY to support this scheme when we could just reject Rosebank?!)

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2. Then there's the timing. Rosebank's production, if approved, would peak in 2033. If you get to 2035 and its developers turn around and say this level of capture is now unfeasible or wriggle out of it some other way (hello powerful oil lobby), most of the damage has already been done.

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1. Additionality. For this proposal to make sense, you need to prove that the emissions captured wouldn't have been captured anyway. If Rosebank's developers pay for CCS at a cement plant that would have installed it anyway, the capture is not additional.

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But the proposal to approve Rosebank with a condition that its developers pay to capture an equivalent amount of emissions is quite flawed. Here's just a few ways:

Approving the field wouldn't save the UK oil and gas industry which has been in steep decline for years. Enforcing decommissioning obligations is a much bigger opportunity for jobs, currently being missed