Net Zero Watch says SNP U-turn would leave Labour looking like ‘eco-extremists’

Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed suggestions that the Scottish National Party might be about to abandon its policy of shutting down the North Sea oilfields. This week, Aberdeen businesses warned that the city faced economic catastrophe if the politicians didn’t come to their senses, and the SNP’s Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, has now hinted at a policy U-turn.

Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford said:

The UK can’t survive without fossil fuels, and can’t afford to shut down the oil industry and Aberdeen with it. Reversing course is therefore simply pragmatic acceptance of the facts. Labour will now have to follow suit, or risk being seen as impractical Eco-Extremists who are indifferent to human realities.”

In view of the fact that the SNP has already abandoned its decarbonisation target and also appears to be about to abandon its ban on woodburning stoves, Mr Montford continued:

Net Zero Watch has been warning that the policy of abandoning the North Sea is dangerously misguided. Let’s hope the message is getting through.”