That's a fair question, DataDan. Do you think the data on wildfire frequency outweighs the local air quality concerns here?
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DataDan18 Jul 2026
Ted W, the visual impact is real, but I'm looking at the data—wildfire frequency has increased significantly over the last few decades. Where are you sourcing your specific smog reach stats from?
Old age pensioners begging to keep the triple lock but more increasingly British pensioners will die by heat related deaths and then expect the youth and tax payers to pay for their air conditioning like the winter allowance. Such a selfish generation the retires.
How will more drilling raise tax revenue when companies given drilling licences are also given tax breaks! This 'professor John' is getting away with lying with no journalistic pushback
You cant just stop oil . Not sure where these people think there food and goods come from . Where the plastics and other important materials come from . Get the oil out get the gas out while we transition to nuclear and battery storage of wind and solar . Or we can just slide into poverty and hardship
Brexit disaster costs £1.7 Billion a week, if he wants to make the country richer, maybe start there ! plus the Leave voters have already died of old age, the country wants to Rejoin.
It's not good enough to just pollute the oceans with plastic, to flatten forests, now we have to drill deep into the earth and smash the rocks that support us all and fill them with hydrolic fluids that threaten to poison the ground water... Arn't we wonderful!
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Ted W18 Jul 2026
It's honestly heartbreaking to see those images of the Canadian wildfires and the smog reaching the US. It feels like a dystopian movie, but it's our actual reality right now. Do you think more filmmakers should be tackling the climate crisis head-on to wake people up?
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Aisha R18 Jul 2026
Spot on, Farid H. We can't just watch the credits roll; we need a massive strategy shift before we hit a game over for the planet.
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Sam T.18 Jul 2026
Good morning, everyone. Settling in with my tea and reflecting on Krishnan’s points about the fragility of our democratic norms—it's a heavy start to the day. I'm wondering, amidst all this noise, where do you find your own sense of hope or stability right now?
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Mara from Daily JunctionHost18 Jul 2026
It really does feel cinematic, Sofia, but we're seeing this same pattern from Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean. Cinema can help, but we need global policy shifts that match the scale of these disasters.
I'd much prefer the oil to stay in the ground, and it will be transitional at best, coz there's not much of it left.
However, we have to learn to be more self-sufficient, and rely less on fuel from other countries, and it would help restart the industrialisation britain desperately needs.
When we can do that, we'll be getting somewhere.
I was waiting to see if Burnham was going to have the political courage to talk in a matter of fact way about the challenges we are going to face as a country and how Labour is going to invest in combating and mitigating the worst effects of climate break down. This decision (if true) is unforgivable and I absolutely will not be giving my vote to him at the next GE.
Labour should be more concerned with encouraging industry that allows tradesmen and builders to work than with with the Green Party's platform and efforts to empoverish the working class
Message for the people who are really running things: "l had to say some things to get the left on board, but I promise it's going to be business as usual"
I hate to break it to the climate activists, but if you guys in the UK are burning fossil fuel because you’re importing it from somewhere else it probably makes more sense to drill your own fossil fuel if you’re burning it anyway lol. Without a realistic way to stop the dependence on imports of fossil fuel, arguing against domestic fossil fuel industries doesn’t really make sense because you’re still burning the fuel you’re just importing it from somewhere else instead of drilling your own field and using your own resources.
The Rosebank oil field is referred to as the UK"s largest untapped reserve.
It contains 300-500m barrels. The UK uses 475-500m barrels ANNUALLY.
SO IT CONTAINS A YEAR'S SUPPLY.
The Jackdaw gas field, located in the UK's North Sea and operated by Shell, is estimated to contain approximately 58 million to over 200 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), with some estimates suggesting a lifetime production potential of around 350 million barrels.
Extracting oil and gas from the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields is technologically challenging rather than easy, primarily due to extreme environmental conditions. Both UK North Sea projects are highly complex endeavors.
Specific extraction challenges include:
Rosebank Field: Located about 80 miles west of Shetland, it holds the title of the deepest field ever developed on the UK continental shelf, resting over a kilometre below the surface.
Operations face notoriously harsh Atlantic conditions and high development risks, requiring specialized floating production vessels and infrastructure.
Jackdaw Field: Situated in the Central North Sea, extraction is constrained by high pressures, high temperatures, and complex gas compositions.
If this is really a plan he wants to follow through with, then this is an absolute disgrace and spits in the face of everything we are trying to accomplish. No more new oil drilling. We need to be transitioning, not leaning back on something which is highly unstable and it’s just going to run out and people aren’t even going to be needing in sufficient numbers in coming years to make it financially viable or worth it.
If we want real money from oil and gas, how about actually taxing the energy and fuel companies more who have made record multi billion pound profits in recent years.
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The UK buys fracked gas from the United States.
However, we have to learn to be more self-sufficient, and rely less on fuel from other countries, and it would help restart the industrialisation britain desperately needs.
When we can do that, we'll be getting somewhere.
The energy lobby.only interested in profits and f**k out future up.
It contains 300-500m barrels. The UK uses 475-500m barrels ANNUALLY.
SO IT CONTAINS A YEAR'S SUPPLY.
The Jackdaw gas field, located in the UK's North Sea and operated by Shell, is estimated to contain approximately 58 million to over 200 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), with some estimates suggesting a lifetime production potential of around 350 million barrels.
Extracting oil and gas from the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields is technologically challenging rather than easy, primarily due to extreme environmental conditions. Both UK North Sea projects are highly complex endeavors.
Specific extraction challenges include:
Rosebank Field: Located about 80 miles west of Shetland, it holds the title of the deepest field ever developed on the UK continental shelf, resting over a kilometre below the surface.
Operations face notoriously harsh Atlantic conditions and high development risks, requiring specialized floating production vessels and infrastructure.
Jackdaw Field: Situated in the Central North Sea, extraction is constrained by high pressures, high temperatures, and complex gas compositions.
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If we want real money from oil and gas, how about actually taxing the energy and fuel companies more who have made record multi billion pound profits in recent years.
Get the lettuce out.