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The energy secretary’s trip north provokes Hoyle’s futile rage, while ITV’s exposé leaves Zia Yusuf immensely sad When is a licence not a licence?
According to The Guardian, the energy secretary’s trip north provokes Hoyle’s futile rage, while ITV’s exposé leaves Zia Yusuf immensely sad When is a licence not a licence?
When it’s a new licence that is an old licence. After months of faffing around – there were the small matters of a party conference and a byelection to negotiate first – the government finally gave the go-ahead to drilling in the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea.
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- What swung it wasn’t so much the irresistible excitement of creating 27 new jobs and securing 2% of the UK’s gas supply for the next 10 years, it was the politics. (The Guardian)
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