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Sunak’s new oil and gas licences face a fight against the odds

1 August 2023

2:18 AM

1 August 2023

2:18 AM

Just Stop Oil (JSO) has taken the news that the government will issue hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences badly. The Prime Minister is ‘worse than a war criminal,’ according to JSO. But the reality is that Sunak’s announcement is a smart move: oil and gas and its derivative industries are still some of the UK’s most important and some of its largest export industries.

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