(Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
(Alba):...The infrastructure in Scotland is already in place to
meet these objectives. In the north-east we have St Fergus and
the Acorn project, in my Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency
we have at Mossmoran one of Europe’s four cracker plants
alongside an LNG plant operated by Exxon and Shell
and at Grangemouth we have one of the UK’s current oil
refineries. I reference the points made by the hon. Member for
Banff and Buchan () with regard to the
environmental impact of exporting oil and gas abroad, which
should dissuade the Government from even considering closing the
refinery at Grangemouth. All those operations have
interconnecting pipelines that are bi-directional, so the
infrastructure is all there and it is completely feasible to
transport carbon from Grangemouth and Mossmorran north to St
Fergus for offshore storage...
(Brighton, Pavilion)
(Green):...When we ask ourselves why that is happening, we might
also reflect on the role of the fossil fuel lobbyists. A few
weeks ago, when I held an Adjournment debate on the subject of
the fossil fuel lobbying that goes on in this place, I noted that
Offshore Energies UK and its members, including BP and Shell
had
“met UK Government Ministers more than 210 times in the year
following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—that is nearly once every
working day.”[—[Official Report, 30 January 2024; Vol. 744, c.
833.]]
The combined profits of Shell and
BP alone have reached £75 billion, and I would suggest that that
is not unrelated to the direction of the Government’s discussion
today...
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