CarbonBrief Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas.

CarbonBrief factchecks claims made in the UK by opposition politicians, newspapers and other public figures who are using the fossil fuel energy crisis triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran to argue in favour of opening the North Sea to more oil and gas drilling.

• FALSE: ‘Reopening the North Sea would lower bills’
• MISLEADING: ‘Energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2’
• FALSE: ‘Britain is a resource-rich nation that has chosen dependency’
• FALSE: North Sea is ‘best way to protect us from volatility and provide energy security’
• MISLEADING: ‘The head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill’
• FALSE: ‘The UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses’
• MISLEADING: ‘With new North Sea licences would come thousands of jobs’
• MISLEADING: North Sea drilling ‘would secure a rush of revenue into the Treasury’
• FALSE: Ed Miliband is an ‘anti-North Sea’ climate change ‘fanatic’
• FALSE: ‘We share the same basin with Norway…there is not a geological difference.”

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