Kevin Keane<\/a>
Scotland energy correspondent<\/p>\nThe Liberal Democrats take a much more nuanced approach to the future shape of our energy mix, which is currently delivering high energy bills and turbo-charging the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n
They don’t directly address the question of whether they would support more exploration licences in the North Sea, which the UK Labour government has banned.<\/p>\n
Instead, they focus on the consumption of fossil fuels to drive down how much oil and gas we need as a country.<\/p>\n
However, that involves a very long list of expensive proposals, delivered at pace, which could be a struggle to finance.<\/p>\n
These include an emergency insulation programme, so homes lose less warmth, accelerating the roll-out of domestic heat pumps, and more investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure as more of us ditch petrol and diesel cars.<\/p>\n
The manifesto recognises that climate change is leading to more damaging wildfires, droughts and floods and therefore cannot be ignored without incurring significant costs in dealing with the aftermath of these extreme weather events.<\/p>\n
But governing involves choices and saying you’ll do everything can leave questions around credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a nuanced approach to energypublished at 10:26 BST 10:26 BST Kevin KeaneScotland energy correspondent The Liberal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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