The hon. Member is making a powerful case, and I thank her for it. The Secretary of State told me yesterday that ending new North sea oil and gas licences is, in his words, “bonkers policy”. Does the hon. Member agree that what is really bonkers is a Government subsidising oil and gas companies to drill more of the very thing that is destroying our planet, and handing billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel companies in the middle of a cost of living crisis?
Energy Infrastructure
Proceeding contribution from
Caroline Lucas
(Green Party)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5 July 2023.
It occurred during Estimates day
and
Backbench debate on Energy Infrastructure.
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