PNN – US President-elect Donald Trump, in a post criticizing the British government for increasing the capacity of renewable energy, asked London to increase its oil and gas extraction by getting rid of windmills.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Reuters news agency, on Friday, Trump criticized the British government’s energy policy on his “Social Truth” platform and asked London to return to harvesting oil and gas resources in the North Sea and get rid of energy-generating windmills.
Reuters has mentioned that the North Sea is one of the oldest offshore oil and gas basins in the world, from which oil extraction has been decreasing since the beginning of 2000, and since then it has become one of the largest wind energy production fields in the world.
In a letter addressed to the British government, Trump wrote: Britain has made a very big mistake. Open the North Sea. Destroy the windmills!
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Referring to Trump’s first administration’s opposition to climate change, this news agency noted that even before entering the world of politics, in 2015, he unsuccessfully opposed the creation and development of a wind farm near his luxury golf course in Scotland.
Reuters also reported: The criticism of the US president-elect included a link from the November 2024 report of APA Crop as an American oil and gas producer that will exit the North Sea by the end of 2029. According to the forecast of this American company, oil production in the North Sea will decrease by 20% in 2025 compared to the same period last year.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won last year’s election by promising to create a low-carbon economy. His government plans to quadruple the production capacity of offshore wind energy to 60 gigawatts by 2030.
According to reports, the UK aims to largely decarbonize its electricity generation by 2030, which means reducing the sector’s dependence on gas-fired power plants and increasing renewable energy capacity.
But in America, Trump has raised the concerns of many experts and world leaders in the discussion of dealing with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by choosing Chris Wright as a well-known figure who deniers of clean energy and climate change as the Minister of Energy.
With the re-election of Trump, who had mocked the issue of climate change many times in his first administration, experts are worried that the focus of his second administration will be that more American lives will be lost due to natural disasters such as floods, fires and storms caused by climate change.