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    Support for a loophole-free windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies sits at nearly 90%
  • May '23
    SNP voters back a ‘rapid’ move away from oil and gas – but are more evenly split on new exploration
  • Feb '22
    Climate Change Committee: New oil and gas fields in the North Sea will create only marginal savings for households
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    Opinion Insight 22nd September 2023

    Support for a loophole-free windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies sits at nearly 90%

    Polling by Greenpeace found almost nine in ten people (87%) want to see a loophole-free windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.

    Separate polling by Green New Deal Rising found 60% support for this policy when given a list of options for funding overseas climate finance commitments (the second most popular was a wealth tax on the richest 1%).

    • Source: Greenpeace
    • Author: Mal Chadwick
    • Date: 26th September 2023
    Opinion Insight 15th May 2023

    SNP voters back a ‘rapid’ move away from oil and gas – but are more evenly split on new exploration

    Polling of SNP voters by the campaign group Stop Cambo found that 70% agree that the UK should ‘get off oil and gas as quickly as possible’ by ramping up efforts to improve energy efficiency and developing lots more renewable energy.

    In an example of the ambiguity that phrases like ‘as quickly as possible’ can sometimes mask, though, whilst 45% supported a ban on new exploration for oil and gas, almost the same number (39%) did not. Overwhelming support for greater investment in renewables among the public does not directly correlate with increasing opposition to oil and gas extraction.

    There is, though, widespread support for ensuring communities are ready and able to benefit from the transition away from oil and gas (62%) and that workers are given more assistance in the transition to green jobs (86%).

    Policy Insight 18th February 2022

    Climate Change Committee: New oil and gas fields in the North Sea will create only marginal savings for households

    The Climate Change Committee, responding to the government’s inclusion of ‘climate compatible checkpoints’ for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea as part of its recent Net Zero Strategy, concluded that:

    “The best way of reducing the UK’s future exposure to these volatile prices is to cut fossil fuel consumption on the path to Net Zero – improving energy efficiency, shifting to a renewables-based power system and electrifying end uses in transport, industry and heating. Any increases in UK extraction of oil and gas would have, at most, a marginal effect on the prices faced by UK consumers in future”

    • Source: Climate Change Committee
    • Date: 18th February 2022

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