It is very welcome news that – as we report today – Premier Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey have decided to give the go-ahead to the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea.
The decision is good in itself. It will reduce our reliance on fuel imports. It will increase tax revenues and generally boost an economy badly in need of growth.
But it is also a victory in a wider battle between common sense and climate posturing. Interestingly, the unions, whose members need work, have been on the sensible side in this controversy.
It ought to be incredible that green
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