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Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
@SiOldridge
Mar 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Good to chat with my MP @AnthonyMangnal1 at last night's sewage meeting. Anthony offered this in defence of the Gov's climate record:

1/ UK's better than others in Europe & could I name a single country with more wind power. I said it's not a competition, but anyway👇
A quick🧵 Image
2/ He said it's better to use our cleaner coal than dirty Polish coal. Similar with oil. I explained that the IPCC, CCC & IEA say new fossil fuels are not consistent with 1.5°C. We don't even need them because science shows 100% renewables is feasible.
brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/…
3/ I added that science tells us 60% of existing oil and gas reserves must stay in the ground for even a 50% chance of 1.5°C. I said our new fossils would be extra: which other country would cut output?
World prices could crash, threatening the transition.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
4/ @benwhlong asked @AnthonyMangnal1 whether he accepted the IPCC's warning that ignoring the science on new fossil fuels presented a grave risk to our future. Anthony said he wasn't sure, he'd need to see more evidence.
Let me know if this isn't enough:
report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPC…
5/ Anthony said that I was wearing a coat containing oil products and really shouldn't criticise the government from such a hypocritical position.
6/ Anthony also said our emissions are tiny compared to China etc. I said we need targets on imported emissions.
And whilst we can’t preach, we can lead, by passing the #CEBill. Others will follow just as they did when the Cons Gov adopted net zero by 2050.
7/ I asked Anthony what he though about the Gov's OWN projections showing us missing our Paris NDC by 40% and our 6th carbon budget by 100%.
He suggested the large number of new 'green day' policies would deal with this. But.... Image
8/ Still analysing the huge Green Day document drop which does contain some positive content, but the pushing ahead with new N Sea oil and gas seriously undermines UK' credentials.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 28
The UK gives North Sea oil operators 91% tax relief for investment—but only for oil or gas, not renewables😲
Any incentive at all for new fossil fuels is madness.
This situation should be flipped.
But, that’s not what @RachelReevesMP is planning.
🧵1️⃣
gov.uk/government/pub…Image
2️⃣N Sea operators pay 3 main profits taxes. Each offers relief for oil & gas investment.
Reeves only proposes to address relief on the Energy Profits Levy:
removing the “Extra Investment Allowance” and merely reducing the “Capital Allowance”.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…Image
3️⃣ And she’s leaving relief in place for “Ring fence Corporation tax” and the “Supplementary Charge”.

The upshot is, depending on how much she reduces the capital allowance on the EPL, total tax relief will be somewhere between 46% and 84%—for new oil & gas investment.
Read 4 tweets
Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 27
Collapse of the #AMOC ocean current would force UK and Scandinavian citizens to flee as refugees—as agriculture fails. This could really happen in the next few decades, but we have a chance to stop it.
What can we do?
🧵1️⃣
theguardian.com/environment/20…
2️⃣Our societies face an existential threat, yet so many people are in the dark. But they deserve to know—and we need all hands on deck.
So Governments need to start being honest and brief the public.
3️⃣Rising to this challenge calls for a clear, strong mission statement—a way to drive emergency action, fairly.
That’s what the science-led Climate & Nature Bill will do. Currently in Parliament with 180+ MPs behind it. Let’s get that passed!
@zerohour_uk
Read 12 tweets
Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 23
The UK’s climate targets are no longer fit for purpose. They were devised 14 years ago before scientists realised how bad extreme weather would get at 1.5°C - and ignore international ✈️&🚢until 2033.
🧵/1️⃣
zerohour.uk/downloads/ambi…Image
2️⃣The 4th & 5th Carbon Budgets (targets) should have been tightened when the UK adopted its new tougher 1.5°C target in 2019.
That's because it's cumulate emissions that matter.
It's no good promising future action.
Bold cuts are needed now. Image
3️⃣The 5th Carbon Budget wasn't tightened in 2020 to mirror our 2030 Paris agreement pledge.
It doesn’t send a great message that we haven't locked our international commitment into domestic targets... Image
Read 6 tweets
Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 20
If Labour proceeds with the Conservatives’ #CCS plans, the UK's climate credibility will be in tatters. This £22B is mostly about building new power stations & blue hydrogen plants powered by highly-polluting imported LNG.
Here’s how they can avert catastrophe🧵1️⃣
2️⃣These 𝗻𝗲𝘄 fossil fuel plants will have a carbon footprint around as bad as coal, even if the #CCS works.
Leading scientists are so concerned, they've written urgently to the Secretary of State.
My thread explaining the key points👇
3️⃣Before awarding decarbonisation subsidies, the rules require Gov to prove that they’ll lower UK emissions.
Seems reasonable, right?
But the last Gov said their #CCS plans will be exempt from that requirement—using this shockingly Orwellian argument👇
Read 8 tweets
Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 4
People ask why I'm against carbon capture. I'm not.
Great - let's try retrofitting #CCS onto the likes of cement plants, power stations etc (though why should the public pay, and not the wealthy FF industry?)
But that's not what the UK's #CCS plans are about.
🧵1️⃣
2️⃣At the heart of UK plans for #CCS is a drive to provide an ongoing market for North Sea gas. They mostly involve building 𝙣𝙚𝙬 fossil fuel infrastructure—power stations and #bluehydrogen plants and using creative accounting to pretend they're 'low carbon'.
3️⃣The focus is on capturing CO₂ emissions from plants. But upstream natural gas leaks cause 15 times more warming than assumed by Gov, and downstream hydrogen leaks are ignored.
Both are powerful warming gases.
I wrote about it with @KevinClimate
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Read 9 tweets
Simon Oldridge #CANBill Profile picture
Oct 2
The UK Gov is about to commit £20 billion of public money to carbon capture.
Gov wants to exempt the #CCS industry from rules requiring it to prove that its plans will lower emissions.
Their argument: because the subsidy is just for building the plants - not operating them!
🧵1️⃣
2️⃣Leading independent scientists have warned that #CCS plans risk worsening climate change - and that advocates are ignoring important factors like leaks of potent warming gas methane all along the supply chain.
3️⃣This is the doing of the previous government under Net Zero minister @ClaireCoutinho who has links to the fossil fuel industry - which now controls most of the carbon capture companies.
Read 5 tweets

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