Starmer eases sanctions on Russian oil despite calls to ramp up North Sea drilling

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The boss of Shell has urged Miliband to ramp up drilling in the North Sea Keir Starmer is to allow Russian imports of diesel and jet fuel in a major softening of what has been a hardline stance ...

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LNG can now be delivered and transported by ship from Sakhalin-2 and Yamal, two terminals in Russia.Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, led the backlash on Starmer’s decision.In a post on X, she said: “After 18 months of ‘standing up to Putin’, the Labour Government quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries.\n\n“Yesterday, Labour MPs voted against UK oil and gas licences. We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea. Insane.”Boost North Sea drillingStarmer’s decision also comes after the boss of one of the UK’s biggest oil giants called on the government to kickstart drilling in the North Sea, claiming it would grant the economy a needed boost and enhance both energy and national security.Wael Sawan, chief executive of Shell, called for energy secretary Ed Miliband to approve two key oil and gas fields, both of which Shell has a stake in through a joint venture, arguing the schemes would “create jobs” that in turn “create taxes”.He also argued having “homegrown resources” would boost national security, claiming it was more ideal that getting energy through imports.\n\nHis comments to The Telegraph follow months of uncertainty regarding both the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea and the Rosebank oil field off Shetland, which are two of the biggest untouched reserves in UK waters.Jackdaw and RosebankShell and Equinor’s, a Norwegian energy company, joint venture Adura has been waiting for Miliband to make a decision about the site, after the court referred the projects to the energy secretary, following a legal battle between developers and green groups over emissions.Adura was created by the two companies to combine their UK offshore oil and gas assets, and operates fields including Mariner and Buzzard.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.42.2","shortVersion":"4.42.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2636819680","isCrawlerRequest":true}