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UK ministers warned of ‘emerging risk’ to gas supply

LONDON — Ministers must act now to address an “emerging risk to gas supply security,” the government’s official independent energy advisers have warned.  The government must make plans to avert a threat to future gas supplies, the

Labour faces moment of maximum danger on North Sea drilling

LONDON — U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband was on the world stage last week demanding high-polluting fossil fuels are phased out of global energy systems.  “This is an issue that cannot be ignored,”

Keir Starmer, climate leader (when the Treasury lets him)

LONDON — Keir Starmer loves to play the climate leader. But only when his political advisers (and the powerful Chancellor Rachel Reeves) tell him he’s allowed. The green-minded U.K. prime minister flies

The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of

WARWICK, England — Jon Butterworth is the guy tasked with helping protect the country if there’s ever a major attack on Britain’s energy system. The boss of National Gas, he oversees thousands

UK energy chief eyes an oil and gas loophole

LONDON — The U.K. government has quietly handed ministers new powers to reverse flagship climate promises and approve new drilling for fossil fuels.  Under new guidance drawn up in Whitehall, Energy Secretary

Voters still want net zero. Just keep Miliband and Starmer away.

LONDON — Since Labour swept into office last year, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has traveled the country enthusing over the government’s dream of a humming, futuristic net-zero economy. The good news, according to

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