Breaking Keir Starmer faces revolt from union paymasters over ‘irresponsible’ ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences that ‘sacrifices workers on the altar of Net Zero’ EnglishHeadline

Keir Starmer is going through a revolt from unions over his ‘irresponsible’ plans for a ban on new North Sea oil and fuel licences.

Unite has launched a marketing campaign to kill off the coverage, warning that staff should not be ‘sacrificed on the altar of Web Zero’.

The oil and fuel sector is price £20billion a yr to the UK economic system and helps 200,000 jobs, together with 90,000 in Scotland, throughout the provide chain.

Presently the trade supplies about half the UK’s fossil gasoline wants, with three-quarters of home vitality depending on oil and fuel.

However Labour has mentioned it could scrap funding reduction within the windfall tax on North Sea producers and halt new oil and fuel licences as a part of the change to cleaner vitality.

Keir Starmer is going through a revolt from unions over his ‘irresponsible’ plans for a ban on new North Sea oil and fuel licences

The oil and fuel sector is price £20billion a yr to the UK economic system and helps 200,000 jobs, together with 90,000 in Scotland, throughout the availability chain (file image)

Unite has launched a marketing campaign with the slogan ‘No Ban With out A Plan’, and common secretary Sharon Graham (pictured) warned that Labour ‘wants to drag again from this irresponsible coverage’

In distinction, Rishi Sunak has continued to assist the licensing of latest oil and fuel fields within the North Sea after arguing that utilizing each final drop of oil is ‘completely the proper factor to do’.  

Unite has launched a marketing campaign with the slogan ‘No Ban With out A Plan’, and common secretary Sharon Graham warned that Labour ‘wants to drag again from this irresponsible coverage’. 

‘There’s clearly no viable plan for the alternative of North Sea jobs or vitality safety,’ she mentioned. 

‘We shouldn’t be letting go of 1 rope till we now have maintain of one other. All these transitions will need to have staff on the coronary heart. 

‘Unite is not going to stand by and let staff be thrown on the scrapheap. North Sea staff can’t be sacrificed on the altar of Web Zero.’ 

Ms Graham mentioned the trade’s staff have been ‘prone to turning into the coal miners of our era’. 

Rishi Sunak has continued to assist the licensing of latest oil and fuel fields within the North Sea after arguing that utilizing each final drop of oil is ‘completely the proper factor to do’