- D. Trump has demands for UK
- No new oil or gas extraction licenses in the North Sea will be granted
D. Trump has demands for UK
US President-elect Donald Trump demanded that the UK dismantle its wind farms in the North Sea on Friday, following a decision by a US oil company to withdraw from the oil-rich region.
"The UK is making a very big mistake. Open the North Sea. Get rid of those windmills!", Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social.
His post also included a reference to the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce in Scotland, which announced the decision of the oil company Apache to withdraw from the North Sea in early November. "According to Apache, the UK's sudden imposition of taxes on oil extraction had made the activity "uneconomic".
No new oil or gas extraction licenses in the North Sea will be granted
During his election campaign, Trump, a strong supporter of fossil fuels, also criticized Germany for its desire to switch to renewable energy sources, predicting that if the country continued with this policy, it would soon go bankrupt.
The UK Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, elected in July, supports wind and solar energy and nuclear power.
During his first term in office, from 2017 to 2021, Trump lowered environmental and climate standards and ensured that the United States withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which many countries signed to reduce the impact of the gases that drive climate change.
President Joe Biden's successor, whose term ends this month, reversed that decision.
Based on ELTA reports
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