Badenoch: We'll get more oil out of North Sea

KEMI Badenoch has said the Conservatives will extract as much oil and gas as possible from the North Sea if the party can return to power at Westminster.

- By Ben Borland

The Tory leader has vowed to make “maximising extraction” the goal of the UK Government, rather than measures aimed at shifting the North Sea industry away from fossil fuels.

Speech

Ms Badenoch will use a speech in Aberdeen in the coming days to set out her plans, the Sunday Telegraph reported. She will say: “We are going to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea.”

She will announce that the Tories plan to completely overhaul the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), which oversees the issuing of licences, dropping the word transition and replacing its current 12-page mandate with a simple order to extract the maximum possible amount of fossil fuels.