Let's be sure Britain makes the best of the North Sea

10th October 2006
By Mark Carne

The UK Energy Review may not have provided the final word on policy when it was published in the summer, but in an area such as energy perhaps we should be relieved that the government is not rushing to conclusions.

The challenge of guaranteeing security of energy supply in particular has come under much sharper scrutiny in the last couple of years, in large part for geo-political reasons. It is right that we take our time and work through solutions that will provide long-term confi…