Stop Big Oil Billionaires polluting our seas for profit.

Offshore oil and gas pollutes UK seas and harms ocean wildlife. It also makes the UK dependent on unpredictable and volatile fossil fuel markets, and subject to price shocks created by global conflict.

We are on the cusp of enshrining in law the end to oil and gas in UK seas. Now is our once-in-generation chance to make it happen.

The government should hold true to its commitment to end new oil and gas exploration. The future of clean seas, marine wildlife, renewable energy security, North Sea prosperity and thriving coastal communities depends on it.

In 2025 there were more than 630 oil and chemical spills in UK seas, including oil spills directly in marine protected areas. Toxic pollution is harming our wildlife and could also end up in the fish that we eat.

Whales and dolphins that rely on sound for hunting and communication are deafened by sonic booms used to search for oil deep beneath the sea floor. Fragile deep sea corals and rare marine life is torn apart for pipelines and smothered by sediments released by drilling.

The reality is that there is very little oil or gas left in the North Sea. What remains is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to extract and would be sold on the volatile international market, by private companies to maximise profits.

New oil would only shackle the UK to more price shocks and uncertainty. Instead, government must hold the line on clean, green, and ever cheaper, renewable energy. 

The government has promised it will ban new oil and gas with legislation but the fossil fuel lobby is desperate to maintain the status quo. We must act now. Tell the government: bring in the ban and stop new oil licences once and for all.

You can lead the UK and the world to a cleaner future for our ocean and abundant, secure, renewable energy.

For our ocean.