Fighting Energy Poverty with Green Power
ClimateInColour Deep Dives
As new offshore oil and gas fields are being approved and energy companies make record profits, more and more people are experiencing energy poverty. The current global system - dominated by huge fossil fuel companies, and in which many households struggle to pay energy bills or get access to power at all - is clearly broken.
Despite widespread resistance - including warnings from hundreds of UK scientists about its critical impact - the new Rosebank oil and gas field was given the go-ahead by UK regulators last week, with the PM saying it was a matter of providing ‘energy security’ for the UK. Searching for (or promising) ‘energy security’ within the current environmentally destructive and exploitative extractive system is no way forward: energy poverty is a global problem that calls for radical solutions.
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