"It is pure fantasy to think that the North Sea can somehow satisfy the UK’s demand for gas. As this research shows, there just isn’t that much gas left in UK waters... Stopping drilling is not ‘turning off the taps’, as some have put it, for the simple fact that the taps aren’t flowing any more, they’re dripping."
It was never an energy policy decision, and trade union support for new oil and gas exploration is shameful.