Thanks for highlighting this. It’s worth also flagging that beyond the immediate £22bn allocated, the Gov expects the total cost of #CCS to 2050 to run to many hundreds of billions. Partly public, partly private - but all paid by us.

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This may result in ENI withdrawing from the consortium that was awarded unlawful exploration licenses offshore Gaza in 2023. Let's keep putting pressure on ENI to review its position on its merger agreement with Ithaca Energy, find out more from @recommon.org 👇
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Both the UK and Scottish govts need to start listening to workers, and not just the lobbying of oil and gas bosses.
Workers want a fairer energy system. Governments need to start listening to them.

Read the full survey 👉 www.platformlondon.org/transition

👪 Public and community ownership

Nine in 10 respondents want to see public and community ownership of energy production expanded, as well as the nationalisation of ports.

🤝 A jobs guarantee

92% are in favour of financial support to oil and gas workers who are not able to find equivalent, alternative employment or have left employment to retrain. 89% support mandating companies to provide employment pathways.

🍃 More investment in UK wind manufacturing (85%)

Those surveyed want to see wind manufacturing jobs created in Scotland and the North East of England. 90% also want to see more investment in upgrading ports to enable this to happen.

ℹ️ UK government support

Almost all of those surveyed (95%) said that the UK government isn’t doing enough to support oil and gas workers into new renewable energy jobs. 88% support fully funded retraining.