Just a few years ago the Energy Secretary backed a campaign against Rosebank oil field. The tweet archives never lie…
Miatta Fahnbulleh reposted the #StopRosebank campaign, which is still active, back in September 2022. The same month she said she was standing to be the prospective Labour parliamentary candidate in Camberwell and Peckham…
While she was its director, the New Economics Foundation think tank signed an open letter by Green New Deal Rising telling Labour to follow its no-new-licences pledge by “pledging to stop in-progress oil and gas fields, like Rosebank, and to scrap all fossil fuel production and consumption subsidies.” Couldn’t get clearer…
The NEF – with Fahnbulleh at its head – wrote an entire report saying the government “must immediately end support for new fossil fuel extraction projects, both at home and abroad.” Dressed up loonery at its finest…
The Chancellor and to some extent No10 have signalled their support for Rosebank’s approval – which must go ahead with Fahnbulleh’s sign-off – while the Energy Secretary herself briefs against the idea. Oh dear Miatta…
Andrew Bowie, Shadow Energy Secretary, tells Guido:
“Labour has put the fate of Rosebank in the hands of a minister who spent years cheering on the campaign to kill it. Under Andy Burnham’s Labour, an eco-zealot who does not believe in North Sea oil now holds the pen on Britain’s biggest untapped field. All the while we ship in oil and gas from abroad as we watch high-skilled jobs drain away.”
Fahnbulleh herself has tried to execute an about-turn on Net Zero, dropping talk of Clean Power 2030. Her minister mysteriously pulled out of an energy conference today. We all know what you really think, Secretary of State…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”