The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted. Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said. Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues. “We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”

Source: The Herald April 02, 2022 23:11 UTC