{"id":698179,"date":"2026-05-16T13:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698179"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:04:05","slug":"uk-moves-to-ban-new-north-sea-oil-gas-licenses-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698179","title":{"rendered":"UK Moves To Ban New North Sea Oil &#038; Gas Licenses Permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&#8230;the government will bake into law its pre-election pledge not to explore new oil and gas fields in a bid to \u201ctake control of our energy security\u201d.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The UK government will introduce legislation banning new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences as part of its Energy Independence Bill.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue the policy will increase Britain\u2019s reliance on imported fossil fuels while damaging Scotland\u2019s oil and gas industry.<\/li>\n<li>Rising oil prices and disruptions tied to the Iran conflict have intensified political pressure on Labour to reconsider the ban.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The government will make it illegal to grant new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, the King said at the state opening of Parliament, in a sign ministers are refusing to buckle in the face of a barrage of criticism \u00a0that the policy is depriving the UK of billions of pounds in tax receipts without helping the environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/uk-moves-ban-new-north-sea-oil-gas-licenses-permanently\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/uk-moves-ban-new-north-sea-oil-gas-licenses-permanently<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If &#8220;taking control of our energy security&#8221; is an acronym for &#8220;destroying it&#8221; &#8212; this policy might just accomplish Labour Government objectives! Nothing quite screams &#8220;security&#8221; as ensuring that self sufficiency is destroyed as energy resources can only be acquired from 3rd party international suppliers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the government will bake into law its pre-election pledge not to explore new oil and gas fields in a bid to \u201ctake control of our energy security\u201d. The UK government will introduce legislation banning new North Sea oil and gas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698180,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698179\/revisions\/698180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}