Radio Scotland Breakfast<\/a>: “I think we all recognise that we have got to deal with emissions.<\/p>\n“But the reality is that, on that journey, we are going to need oil and gas.<\/p>\n
“We would argue that while we use oil and gas we should prioritise our own and produce and support our own.”<\/p>\n
Whitehouse said one in 30 jobs in Scotland were in the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n
And he told the programme that producing instead of importing oil and gas, from countries such as the US and the United Arab Emirates, “comes with much lower emissions”. <\/p>\n
Supporters of further drilling, including the Conservatives and some trade unions have also said it will not make a significant difference to emissions and is vital for protecting jobs.<\/p>\n
President Trump has also been a vocal supporter of North Sea drilling, and said Burnham “sounded terrific” on the issue in their first phone call last month.<\/p>\n
In that call, Burnham told Trump the UK “can’t ignore” resources in the North Sea, and said he would take “a pragmatic approach” to further drilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ami McCarthy, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: “Trying to squeeze the last few drops of expensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733273","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=733273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}