I'm A Green Party MP. Here's Why I Think Developing The Jackdaw Gas Field Is Huge Mistake

Writing for HuffPost UK, ex-party leader Carla Denyer said: “This climate vandalism has to stop now.”

Andy Burnham promised he would be different.

He stood on a roof in Manchester and committed to a fossil-free future.

And yet, today, the government approved drilling at Jackdaw, demonstrating that his government cares more about oil and gas company profits than the health, finances, and security of the British people.

Jackdaw is not the answer to any of our problems.

Jackdaw will not lower bills, as the energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh herself has admitted again this morning, and it will only create 27 new jobs.

On top of that, it will not contribute any significant amount of gas to our domestic stocks.

es, we will still use some gas as we make the transition to clean energy, but there’s more than enough extraction going on globally to meet that need.

Adding 2% of supply from our dwindling North Sea basin will not make........

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