Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet.
It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.
WH official: “We want to seize all the oil from Iran. The long-term benefit is getting massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.”
He made 9 spoken contributions in the House. "I have now decided, having proudly served as a peer for 30 years, that the time is right for me to retire and resign my membership of the Conservative Party."
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The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
As the Americans land B1 bombers at RAF Fairford, President Trump is promising a relentless assault. We are being drawn into an offensive war. The PM must spell out to Parliament what constitutes a “defensive” operation and the limits on the use of our bases.
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Oil and gas prices are set on international markets beyond UK control
North Sea is not credible solution:
❌ output too small to make any difference
❌ will decline irrespective of new licences
Renewable generation and net zero tech 🔑 to bring energy independence
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"The UK is one of the least food self-sufficient countries in Europe. Prof Tim Lang: 'We're not thinking about this enough. We're ducking it.'"
Baroness Sheehan raised a stark warning from the repressed national security assessment: nature loss could leave UK GDP 12% lower by 2030.
Read the exchange:
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Households on heating oil already grappling with soaring prices
Iranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain.
@PA_Consumer
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How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad
Hardworking taxpayers fund our armed forces.
Meanwhile influencers like Isabel Oakeshott live overseas, contribute nothing, and still benefit from the protection of the UK.
If she's going to pick a fight with @calummillerld.bsky.social, she should at least get her facts right.
A new defence technology company bringing Ukrainian battlefield-tested autonomous systems to allied militaries has launched globally with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Announcing our next speaker for the Accelerating Local Climate Action Conference! 🌍✨
Victoria Marsom, Interim Director of Communities & Networks at @friends-earth.bsky.social , will be speaking on 18 March. 🎤
She played a key role in the successful campaign against the Whitehaven Coal Mine. 💚
The big tech companies need to be paying their fair share of taxes so we can properly fund mental health services.
The next few weeks is going to see an avalanche of calls for the Treasury to do what it should have done long ago and move policy costs off electricity bills and into general taxation. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The United States joined Russia, China, and Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat to nuclear safety, - Reuters
🧵 Retired U.S. general Keith Kellogg says the U.S. could target Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf.
The island sits about 18 miles off Iran’s coast and handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports.
South East Water has been warned repeatedly by regulators, over a period of 4 years, that it was at risk of supply failure & needed to act to protect water resources in order to keep the taps on.
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Attend Spring #LDConf in York and interact with our @libdems.org.uk spokespeople during their Q&A sessions on the important issues of International Affairs and Economy & Business!
Exploring the Palace of Westminster 🚶➡️
“The UK’s failure to [pivot to homegrown clean energy] has left people on ordinary incomes paying the price.”
Europe's strategy worsened the last energy shock. Now, European leaders support a war that may cause the next one.
Our briefing in @theguardian.com 👇
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Our Armed Forces must always protect British citizens wherever they are in the world.
But tax exiles and influencers who make a living criticising the UK should contribute to the country they still expect to protect them.
Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.
Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Could well have added while they pursue another war for control of fissile fuel resources all the while denying the existence of climate change and continuing to bring about global climate collapse.
Cumbria police probe £60k damage to Whitehaven wind turbine - BBC News share.google/iSqEm2Ver4RE...
Cumbria Police said bolts were taken off the turbine, located off The Mount in Whitehaven, causing it to break and fall.
A friend of writers in the #HouseOfLords - thanks to our Chair Tim Clement-Jones for highlighting the need for an #AI license to better protect the work of creators 🙏
We're keenly awaiting the government's report and economic analysis of #ArtificialIntelligence and #Coypright, due later this month.
Millions of families are already at breaking point. Now experts warn energy bills could jump by £500 thanks to Donald Trump’s illegal war.
Today I asked the Prime Minister for a cast-iron guarantee that he will not let energy bills skyrocket again.
He didn’t give it.
Earl Russell @earlrussell.bsky.social made an excellent case for a polluter pays levy during Report stage for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
The levy could raise up to £700 million a year, placing the cost on the tobacco industry, not consumers. 💰
