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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1563047)	10/5/2025 10:50:52 AM
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Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - DeSmog Nigel Farage’s party was told by Offshore Energies UK to rethink its plan to thwart clean energy. By Adam Barnett onSep 30, 2025 @ 07:14 PDT LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas industry’s closest ally, vowing to “drill, baby, drill” in the North Sea and scrap the windfall tax on excess profits, while meeting with oil executives, and courting donations from the sector. However, on a panel at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool on Monday (29 September), a spokesperson for Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) criticised Reform’s plans to end state support for clean energy. Natalie Coupar, communications and marketing director at OEUK – members of which include fossil fuel giants BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, and Equinor – said the group is “apolitical” but gives “hard truths to all parties”. She said: “One of the things we’ve been saying to Reform very much is, you know, if you’re going to turn on the taps for oil and gas, there’s almost really no point if you’re just going to turn off the taps to renewables. “That doesn’t help. We need to keep both those streams open.” According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s net zero economy grew by 10 percent in 2024, employing almost a million people in full-time jobs. Coupar also said it was essential to “hold the consensus on tackling climate change and growing our energy future”. . In May, the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice said: “Whether it’s planning blockages, whether it’s judicial reviews, whether it’s lawsuits, whether it’s health and safety notices, we will use every available legal measure to an extreme way in order to frustrate these people.” Tice – who has said “there’s no evidence that man-made CO2 is going to change the climate” – met with senior oil executives in May and promised to approve new drilling licences “on day one” of a Reform government. Last month, he pledged to overturn the UK’s ban on fracking for shale gas, which he calls “treasure beneath our feet”, and told the industry to “get ready”. In April, Reform party treasurer and a billionaire property developer Nick Candy said he was trying to secure donations from oil and gas executives, claiming to have raised £100,000 from one, though this has yet to appear on Reform’s donations register. As DeSmog has reported, 92 percent of Reform’s funding between the 2019 and 2024 general elections came from climate science deniers or those with highly polluting interests – a total of £2.3 million. Since his election as an MP last year, Farage has spoken at a string of events in the U.S. organised by radical groups backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda. Last December, Farage launched the UK-EU branch of the Heartland Institute, a U.S. climate denial think tank. Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London in February, Farage claimed it was “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered to a pollutant. However, he added: “I’m not a scientist. I can’t tell you whether CO2 is leading to warming or not, but there are so many other massive factors.” Climate scientists at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate science body, have stressed that “it is a statement of fact, we cannot be any more certain; it is unequivocal and indisputable that humans are warming the planet”.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1563047)	10/5/2025 1:30:51 PM
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Masked men torch UK mosque with worshippers inside, cops suspect hate crime Story by India Today World Desk • 28m A mosque in Peacehaven, near Brighton on England's south coast, was set on fire in a suspected arson attack while two people were still inside on Saturday night local time. UK Police are treating the incident as a hate crime, CNN reported. The attack is the latest in a string of violent incidents during a politically tense summer in the UK, marked by a rise in both Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes. It comes just days after two people were killed in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur. According to a voluntary mosque manager, two individuals wearing balaclavas attempted to force their way into the mosque on Saturday night. When they couldn't gain entry, they poured gasoline on the steps and set it alight. Emergency services were called shortly before 10 pm local time. At the time, the chairman and another worshipper, both in their 60s, who were having tea after evening prayers were inside the mosque. They fled the building after hearing a loud bang and seeing flames engulf the main entrance. It is unclear whether the attackers knew the building was occupied. The small mosque, which has been open for four years, typically hosts 10 to 15 worshippers for evening prayers. After services ended around 8.15 pm, the chairman and another volunteer stayed behind for tea, a routine habit in the quiet, close-knit community. Security footage from the mosque shows two masked individuals arriving at the door, trying to open it multiple times, then pouring gasoline on the door, floor, and on a vehicle parked outside, which was the chairman's car. Although no one was physically harmed, Sussex Police acknowledged the psychological impact on the Muslim community. Police have increased patrols in the area and stepped up security at places of worship across Sussex, according to the CNN report. Liberal Democrat MP James MacCleary, who represents the Lewes district, condemned the attack on social media, writing: "Appalling to hear about this fire at the mosque in Peacehaven. It is used by my constituents and is an important part of the local community. Police are treating it as a hate crime." The mosque had previously been targeted, last August, eggs were thrown at the building on two separate occasions, and individuals passing by have hurled racial slurs, according to the manager. In the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a strong condemnation of rising hate crimes and warned that hatred "is rising once again, and Britain must defeat it once again."