North Sea oil ‘is ripe for a rebound’

Ed Miliband’s fantasies of climate justice and clean energy are slowly being exposed. The secretary of state for energy security and net zero’s green delusion is going to be abandoned. If an economy is to grow, then it must consume more energy, not less. Wind and solar power are too expensive and too unreliable, to say nothing of the damage they do to the environment and the carbon footprint they leave. The government is already pledging to paint offshore wind farms black because of all the birds they are killing.

Offshore wind is not going to replace oil and gas. Fossil fuels remain a better, cheaper, cleaner and more reliable source of energy. For an already heavily taxed country that is living well beyond its means, where growth is the only thing that can save it, needlessly expensive energy is not possible.