North sea chief in call for energy ‘policy reset’ to boost domestic  production

A North Sea boss has called for ‘an urgent policy reset’ under a new Prime Minister to boost domestic energy production.

In a letter to Labour MPs, the boss of Offshore Energies UK warned that Britain has suffered 50 years of industrial decline amid a growing dependence on imported energy.

David Whitehouse, the trade body’s chief executive, pointed out that North Sea oil and gas has a carbon footprint four times lower than imports of liquefied natural gas.

With Andy Burnham set to take over as Prime Minister from Keir Starmer next month, Whitehouse wrote that the UK is reliant on fuel refined

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