Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho says bills and taxes will increase under Labour and Keir can’t keep lights on
UNION chiefs are demanding Labour carry on granting North Sea gas and oil licences until they have a “concrete” proposals for green jobs.“That is the commitment we need to see if oil and gas workers are not going to be the coal miners of our generation.“And until these new green, well paid, skilled jobs are in place there must be no ban on oil and gas licences.”
However, Sir Keir said he wasn’t going to “turn the pipes off instantaneously” saying oil and gas would be part of the energy mix for decades to come.
“We have to plan for the future, do the transition properly and that is the best way to ensure that jobs are there, not just for this generation, but for the next generation after that.”said: “Labour’s policy to turn off the taps to North Sea oil and gas would decimate 200,000 energy jobs.”
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