Rishi Sunak visit to Shell St Fergus Plant near Peterhead.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced support for the carbon capture Acorn Project in St Fergus, Aberdeenshire. He also confirmed the granting of 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences during his visit.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced support for the carbon capture Acorn Project in St Fergus, Aberdeenshire. He also confirmed the granting of 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences during his visit.
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00:00 Hello, I'm Alistair Grant and I'm the Political Editor of the Scotsman and I'm here at Shell's
00:04 St Fergus gas plant in Aberdeenshire where the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been visiting
00:09 to make some major announcements relating to energy. So he's confirmed funding for the
00:16 Acorn carbon capture project here in St Fergus and he's also been confirming more than 100
00:22 new oil and gas licences in the North Sea. Both of these controversial in their own ways
00:27 although the Scottish Government, the SNP, First Minister Humza Yousaf welcoming that
00:32 announcement on the Acorn project. It's something they have been pushing for, that they are
00:36 supportive of, that they say the UK Government hasn't been acting quickly enough on. But
00:42 those announcements around North Sea oil and gas fields are a lot more controversial from
00:46 their point of view. Humza Yousaf, the First Minister today, saying that unlimited extraction
00:50 in the North Sea is, to quote him, "to recklessly gamble the future of our planet for cheap
00:55 political gain". So particularly with the climate crisis becoming an ever bigger political
01:00 issue, something that comes up a lot in politics, we should expect this to feature heavily in
01:04 the years to come, especially with the parties, with Labour's policy being quite different
01:09 when it comes to North Sea oil and gas than Rishi Sunak's.
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