{"id":1358,"date":"2019-04-19T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:46:46","slug":"uk-oil-and-gas-industry-responsible-for-44bn-of-damage-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"UK Oil and Gas Industry &#8216;Responsible for \u00a344bn of Damage Each Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course they are&#8230;!?!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilandgaspeople.com\/news\/18222\/uk-oil-and-gas-industry-responsible-for-44bn-of-damage-each-year\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UK Oil and Gas Industry &#8216;Responsible for \u00a344bn of Damage Each Year&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s oil and gas sector is causing \u00a344bn worth of costs through environmental damage, negative social impacts and healthcare spending, a new Friends of the Earth (FotE) report has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u2018make the polluter pay\u2019, the 42-page document states that the \u201csocial cost of carbon emissions\u201d from the sector have reached \u00a31.65trn since 1990 \u2013 a figure which accounts for the environmental harm done at all stages of production and use, as well as the health effects of long-term \u201ccumulative\u201d exposure to pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>To reach this figure, the green campaign group placed the average social cost of carbon over the past 28 years at \u00a3122 per tonne. This figure, FotE claims, is \u201calmost certainly conservative\u201d in light of recent studies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s (IPCC) landmark report and the International Energy Agency\u2019s (IEA) latest global emissions forecast.<\/p>\n<p>e. fudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course they are&#8230;!?! UK Oil and Gas Industry &#8216;Responsible for \u00a344bn of Damage Each Year&#8217; The UK&#8217;s oil and gas sector is causing \u00a344bn worth of costs through environmental damage, negative social impacts and healthcare spending, a new Friends of the Earth (FotE) report has concluded. Entitled \u2018make the polluter pay\u2019, the 42-page document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,127,102,42,28,8],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-oil","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-ocean","tag-science","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}