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Isobel @iso-bel.bsky.social · 3h

If you're at SNP Conference on Sunday, we've got a brilliant line up at our panel on how the SNP can help make a fair North Sea transition a reality, including the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy. Details 👇 - come along for a timely & vital discussion (& breakfast spread 🥐 !)

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

As the Tories & Reform increasingly look backwards for answers, the Climate Jobs coalition represents a genuinely hopeful & forward-looking politics. Plenty of work still to do but this is the kind of political realignment that feels like a potential turning point in energy policy & politics. END

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

attended by GMB, Prospect, energy cos, MPs & Scottish MSPs, where the opportunity for significant job creation in the clean energy supply chain was discussed, incl. at a scale that ensures a fair transition away from North Sea oil & gas. More from us on that here: www.upliftuk.org/post/clean-e...
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Clean Energy Made in the UK - Report from Uplift (Publication)

The UK is presented with an enormous opportunity to establish a thriving domestic wind manufacturing industry, as the country transitions to clean energy, according to a new report, Clean Energy Made ...

www.upliftuk.org

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

...the coalition behind the shift away from fossil fuels will expand to include the labour movement, the climate movement & the majority of the UK public who support renewables over FF on energy security & affordability grounds. We also cohosted a roundtable in Liverpool on O&G transition...
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

...and trailed measures that the UK gov will introduce to ensure clean energy jobs are good jobs (eg a Fair Work Charter). The (small 'p') political shift this represents is significant. Unions are rightly concerned with the interests of their members--as that membership grows in clean energy...
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

GMB chief Gary Smith who has, shall we say, expressed past scepticism re climate policy, started by recognising that working class communities are impacted first by the climate crisis. Ed Miliband responded by stating that TU voices aren't an 'optional extra' in his clean energy jobs plan...
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 2d

While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 7d

And none of it exists in quantities that will materially affect prices or our energy security. The only way to ultimately bring down bills is by getting gas out of our electricity mix and investing in renewables, which is also our best shot at energy security and averting the climate crisis.

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 7d

Nick Robinson on Today this AM was completely wrong to suggest that pumping more oil & gas from the North Sea would lower bills, something even former Tory Energy Secretaries have accepted.

We’ve burned most of the gas and export the vast majority of the oil—and oil is basically what’s left…

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 12d

Ministers are considering a green light to expand existing North Sea oil and gas fields despite Labour’s manifesto pledge to ban new ones.

@tessakhan.bsky.social says industry figures for those expansions are a "fantasy"

Labour says manifesto will be met

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Ed Miliband considers expansion of existing North Sea oil fields

While Labour pledged to ban new oil and gas fields, the energy secretary is looking into ‘tiebacks’ — small expansions of existing sites

www.thetimes.com

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 14d

Where there was clear agreement was on the strong case for LibDems to lead on climate & that the future of the N Sea matters. IMO this conversation is welcome, as is recognition that leadership on phasing out oil & gas and a fair transition for communities don't need to be mutually exclusive. END

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 14d

Alistair represents a constituency that has really benefited from its oil & gas links. But he's conscious of the geological reality of a declining basin & rightly makes the case that communities need to feel the benefits of all the clean energy projects that are proliferating in Scotland.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 14d

It's no surprise that proper transition planning is important to MPs repping voters in Scotland--there's no question it is crucial to get this right. At our panel on North Sea transition with @pippaheylings.bsky.social & @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social we heard these concerns play out in real time.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 14d

Before we get swept away by Trumps latest stream of consciousness, quick reflections on how the future of the Nth Sea played out at Lib Dem party conference which just wrapped. In short, LD declared themselves parliament's climate champions & underlined the importance of bringing communities along.🧵

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 15d

"This isn't a choice between more North Sea drilling or imports — that ship has sailed. It’s between more imports or ramping up renewables. The transition must be better planned...but as long as the spectre of more drilling hovers, governments will continue to delay."

My letter in today's FT:

Letter: UK choice — boost oil and gas imports or ramp up renewables

From Tessa Khan, Executive Director of Uplift

www.ft.com

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Climate Centre @climatecentreuk.bsky.social · 16d

"The reality is that the small print in the industry's own reports show that there is vanishingly small amounts of gas thats left to be extracted from the North Sea."

Tessa Khan, Executive Director & Founder at Uplift, @tessakhan.bsky.social. On LBC with Clare Foges @lbc.co.uk.

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 16d

If you're in sunny Bournemouth today, come along to the cracking panel we've organised to discuss how to secure a fair transition for the North Sea.
Speakers include Lib Dem climate spokes @pippaheylings.bsky.social MP, Alastair Carmichael MP, Elliot Chapman-Jones & @dominicmhinde.bsky.social (& me)

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 16d

Good luck, Dominic!

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 16d

If I get to Bournemouth (currently stuck on a train in the dark in Hampshire) I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Marriott together with @tessakhan.bsky.social and @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social at 11.30 on the future of the North Sea. Come, bring questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them.

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

A recent survey of O&G workers confirms they want more investment in wind manufacturing & ports to create jobs; more pressure on renewable firms to grow UK supply chains; more help to move into these jobs. New licensing will do nothing to change a trajectory the industry has been on for years. END

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

...We need investment in manufacturing & assembly renewables here, incl. in ports. Eking out a bit more oil & gas from what is already an unattractive investment prospect (which is why investors have been leaving long before Labour was elected) is not the answer.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

To ignore the reality that the O&G industry in the UK has been declining for a decade bc of geology, not politics, would be a disservice to supply chains & workers that need investment in the North Sea’s future in renewables. If we want to keep supply chains here...
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

A “no constraints case” would require massive tax breaks, sustained high oil prices (which few in the industry are anticipating) and/or a miraculous boost to investor confidence in an aging & expensive basin. So let's keep any conversation about the impact of tiebacks in perspective.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

Industry claims that 7.3 bn barrels are within reach of current fields. This is fantasy. Even the industry's own analysis shows that tiebacks within 50km of existing fields could at most deliver just 0.4 billion barrels of O&G PLUS that's in a "no constraints scenario"
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 20d

But if you read the small print, it turns out this is patently false. The industry’s OWN analysis says that production on this scale, while theoretically possible, is ‘beyond realistic assumptions’.
(p. 15 of this report: landing.westwoodenergy.com/hubfs/Westwo...)
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17d

Some highly questionable industry assertions about ‘tiebacks’ and new oil & gas exploration licensing covered by the Sunday Times this morning, incl. the volume of potential production & the impact on jobs & supply chains. Let's take a closer look: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Labour looks to water down North Sea drilling ban

Ed Miliband is expected to allow exploration next to existing sites to increase fossil fuel production without breaking a manifesto pledge

www.thetimes.com

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