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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T03:15:12.000Z",
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    "'Take back control!' Industry demands North Sea revival as Britain sits on BILLIONS of oil barrels",
    "Ed Miliband's North Sea oil plans scolded as experts warn production 'imperative' amid Iran war",
    "Ed Miliband accused of 'impoverishing Britain' as Reform vows to slash £200 from energy bills",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nEd Miliband’s \"cult-like fanaticism\" over net zero is \"making Britain weaker and poorer\", the Conservatives have claimed.\n\nTory leader Kemi Badenoch is set to use an opposition day in Parliament on Tuesday to force a vote on unlocking development of the Rosebank oil field and the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBoth projects have been in legal limbo since January 2025, when a Scottish court ruled extraction could not proceed without further environmental assessments.\n\nLicences for the sites were granted by the previous government and initially accepted by Labour, but both now require fresh approval.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nMr Miliband has ruled out new North Sea oil licences as part of his net zero agenda.\n\nHe previously described opening Rosebank as an act of \"climate vandalism\".\n\nShadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho has urged ministers to fast-track the projects, writing in The Telegraph that delaying them would be \"lunacy\".\n\nShe said: \"We must fast-track Rosebank and Jackdaw and lift the onerous bans and taxes on the North Sea to back Britain’s energy security.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Kemi Badenoch knows it and Keir Starmer knows it. Unfortunately, so far only one of them has had the courage to say so.\"\n\nPressure is also mounting from the energy industry as oil prices rise.\n\nRenewableUK has urged the Government to take \"energy out of the culture wars\" and boost production.\n\nOffshore Energies UK said oil and gas will play a \"critical role\" in Britain’s energy mix for decades.\n\n### LATEST ON ENERGY:\n\n\n\n\n  * 'Take back control!' Industry demands North Sea revival as Britain sits on BILLIONS of oil barrels\n  * Ed Miliband's North Sea oil plans scolded as experts warn production 'imperative' amid Iran war\n  * Ed Miliband accused of 'impoverishing Britain' as Reform vows to slash £200 from energy bills\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nGreg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus Energy, has also called for the North Sea to be reopened.\n\nLabour-backed unions have raised concerns, warning more than 200,000 jobs rely directly or indirectly on the sector.\n\nChancellor Rachel Reeves is understood to be among those in Cabinet pushing for increased North Sea output.\n\nHowever, Mr Miliband faces the threat of a backbench rebellion and backlash from climate campaigners if he moves to fast-track new projects.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nLast week, he told the BBC that new licences would not \"take a penny off people's bills\".\n\nOn Monday, Liberal Democrat MP Jamie Stone urged Sir Keir Starmer to intervene and approve new licences himself.\n\nThe Prime Minister said the decision rests with the Energy Secretary.\n\nHe added that \"oil and gas will be part of the mix\" and said the Government supports resources \"already being brought at huge quantities\".\n\n\"That doesn’t get us off the international market, unfortunately. The only thing that gets us truly off the international market is renewables, but it’s got to be a mix,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nA Department for Net Zero spokesman told The Telegraph: \"Our priority is to deliver a fair, orderly and prosperous transition in the North Sea in line with our climate and legal obligations, which drives our clean energy future of energy security, lower bills, and good long-term jobs.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Conservatives blast Ed Miliband’s ‘cult-like fanaticism’ over Net Zero as it ‘makes Britain weaker and poorer’"
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