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Campaigners accuse Trump of attacking UK energy policies

by admineconai January 6, 2025
written by admineconai January 6, 2025
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Climate campaigners have accused US president election, Donald Trump of attacking Britain’s energy policies on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, which made record donations to his presidential campaign.

Trump wrote in a social media post on Friday that the British government was gravely mistaken by cracking down on North Sea oil and gas producers – and that the UK should abandon wind generation. The broadside appeared to be a clear condemnation of the Labour government’s decision to raise taxes for oil and gas producers while granting record subsidies to new wind power projects.

The UK plans to double its onshore wind generation and quadruple its offshore wind capacity by the end of the decade, aiming to run a clean power system by 2030 and hit legally binding climate targets. At the same time it has ruled out granting any new oil and gas licences.

“The UK is making a very big mistake,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. “Open up the North Sea. Get rid of Windmills!”

Read also: Flooding causes collapse of 18th-century canal embankment in Cheshire

Greenpeace UK’s chief scientist, Doug Parr, said: “The US president-elect is speaking not on behalf of people in the UK, but his own ‘drill baby drill’ agenda and the Big Oil bosses who poured millions into his campaign.”

Tessa Khan, the executive director at Uplift, a group that campaigns for a swift but fair transition away from oil and gas production in the UK, said Trump was “clearly looking after the interests of US oil and gas firms”.

“His team is shot through with oil and gas interests that want the rest of the world, the UK included, to slow its transition to clean energy and remain hooked on oil and gas for years to come just so they can keep profiting,” Khan said.

The exact catalyst for Trump’s intervention was unclear but the social media post linked to an announcement from November in which the US oil firm Apache blamed the UK’s windfall tax for its decision to leave the North Sea before the end of the decade.

John Christmann, the chief executive of Apache’s parent company, APA, said the “onerous financial impact” of the windfall tax combined with a string of new regulations to ​​reduce harmful climate emissions would make its British business “uneconomic” by 2029.

Story was adapted from the Guardian.

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