Badenoch Urges Britain to Resume North Sea Drilling as Europe Faces 12C-to-Heatwave Climate Backlash
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 28
Badenoch Urges Britain to Resume North Sea Drilling as Europe Faces 12C-to-Heatwave Climate Backlash
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 28
Summary
Kemi Badenoch used a speech in Aberdeen to demand that Britain “get drilling again,” saying the “war on oil and gas must end” as she backed the UK fossil-fuel industry.
Aberdeen — a major North Sea petroleum hub — provided a symbolic setting for the appeal, delivered on a 12C day even as Europe was reeling from record heat.
The intervention ties energy policy to a broader political fight over climate responses, with right-wing parties seeking to turn heat-related disruption into an attack on mainstream elites.
That creates a sharp tension at the center of the debate: the same oil and gas industry Badenoch defended is linked to the climate change that contributed to the continent’s latest heat extremes.