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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
As that's impossible, only the hard of thinking will buy into that policy.
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It’s not impossible … just extremely difficult and expensive and therefore highly improbable.
Parliament is sovereign, it can pass and Act unilaterally altering the nature of drilling and extraction licences in the UK sector of the North Sea. It can nationalise all operations if it chooses. In time of war the government could probably do so directly, under emergency requisition, without Parliamentary consent at all.
But, as you say, only the hard of thinking would believe any government in peacetime would take on such a monumentally expensive and destabilising project.