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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The best way to ease consumers\u2019 pain from high energy prices is to stop using fossil fuels rather than drill for more of them, the government\u2019s climate advisers say.<\/p>\n

Some Tory MPs want the government to expand production of shale and North Sea gas, saying it would lower bills. But advisers said UK-produced gas would be sold internationally and barely reduce the consumer price.<\/p>\n

They said wind and solar power, as well as home insulation, is a better route. The report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) comes at a time when household energy bills are rising quickly. There is also international uncertainty over gas supplies due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n

The committee warned that new fossil fuel projects in the North Sea would, in some cases, not deliver gas until 2050. That\u2019s the date when climate laws stipulate that the UK must be almost completely weaned off gas.<\/p>\n

The committee said it favours tighter restrictions on drilling in the North Sea, and it favours a \u201cpresumption against exploration\u201d. But it won\u2019t go so far as recommending these actions to ministers because it said there are finely-balanced arguments for and against drilling.<\/p>\n

British-produced gas, for instance, is extracted causing less damage to the climate than imports, although it\u2019s impossible to say whether other exporters will reduce their own emissions in future.<\/p>\n

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These uncertainties mean that decisions on whether to drill more in the North Sea must be left to ministers, the committee says. The oil and gas industry feels it has a strong case because of its lower-than-average emissions.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists are angry that the committee hasn\u2019t followed the recommendation of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and ruled out further fossil fuel exploration because enough has been discovered already.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think the UK \u2013 with its diversified economy and its large historic emissions \u2013 should be the ones leading the way on recommending no further oil and gas exploration,\u201d Doug Parr from Greenpeace told BBC News.<\/p>\n

Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, said the committee was disappointed with the UK oil and gas industry\u2019s ambitions to cut its own operational emissions.<\/p>\n

It said the industry could lower pollution by reducing methane venting and electrifying oil platforms. And it warned that over-supply of hydro-carbons globally would \u201cblow the Paris climate agreement out of the water.\u201d Climate change report to sound warning on impacts<\/p>\n

Lord Deben, the committee\u2019s chairman, was emphatic about the need to continue on the path away from burning gas. He said if the UK followed through with green policies outlined by the prime minister, it would cut \u00a3100 off bills in the future.<\/p>\n

He said average home bills would have been \u00a340 lower now if the former PM David Cameron hadn\u2019t scrapped schemes to insulate the UK as part of his initiative to \u201ccut the green crap\u201d \u2013 a remark ascribed to one of his aides, which led to an assault against energy-saving programmes.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) welcomed the report as an \u201cacknowledgement that carbon budgets can still be met if new oil and gas fields are developed in the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will continue to be ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming decades as we transition to cleaner and cheaper forms of energy generated in this country,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Craig Mackinlay, one of the most vocal MPs calling for increased North Sea drilling, said the CCC advice had \u201cfinally acknowledged\u201d that UK \u201cdomestic gas production creates jobs, can reduce energy prices and helps towards energy security\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report comes a day after a think tank, Green Alliance, accused the government of wasting millions of pounds on propping up North Sea oil and gas. \u201cTax relief and subsidies have made the UK one of the most skewed tax environments in the world for oil and gas production,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The report estimated that fossil fuel companies received nearly \u00a310bn in tax relief for new exploration in the North Sea between 2016 and 2020, while \u00a33.7bn was granted in tax relief for decommissioning costs. But the report warned that revenue is expected to drop from the mature basin, as remaining resources become harder to extract.<\/p>\n

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