Union to fight oil ban without clear plan for new jobs

The UK Government recommitted to its pledge to ban any new oil and gas licences.

A union has warned that it will fight the UK Government’s proposed oil and gas licences in the North Sea if it can’t prove it’s going to create thousands of new jobs.

Yesterday, the Government recommitted to its pledge to ban any new oil and gas licences in the region and end the windfall tax.

It comes as the North Sea’s largest oil producer posted tens of millions of pounds of losses, partly blaming the levy.

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