Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas - Carbon Brief

Summary:

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.”