Exclusive: decision to grant licences condemned by critics as a stunt that shows Tories are ‘playing politics with climate’
  • towerful@programming.dev
    6·
    7 months ago

    I would like to think these sites can be used for multiple purposes.
    Id prefer no new oil sites, tho. It’s a cash grab to try and make the economy look like it isn’t failing, at the expense of literally everyone

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      18·
      7 months ago

      Allowing oil and gas extraction within a wind farm tends to create issues involving feeder lines and high-voltage electrical transmission needing to cross each other on the seabed. The US has gone out of its way to ensure that offshore wind farms are in areas without oil and gas extraction for this reason.