LONDON — Donald Trump has spent years urging Britain to go bigger on oil and gas. Now the industry has had enough of him.
Amid a global price shock caused by the U.S.-Iran war, and accusations about the White House flip-flopping on energy policy, fossil fuel lobbyists have a message for the British government: We can no longer rely on the U.S.
When Offshore Energies UK, the country’s biggest oil and gas trade group, lobbied politicians this month, it was to promote more drilling for gas off the coast of Scotland.
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The crisis erupting in the Gulf was a reminder to align with “key allies” in the “national economic interest,” OEUK said in a letter sent to lawmakers in London and Scotland and seen by POLITICO.
