Crisis in the Gulf Affects Jobs in West Wales 

It is more than 50 years ago that we suffered a major oil crisis because of war in the Middle East. The Green Party came into existence then and has been arguing ever since for a sensible transition to renewable energy and home insulation, all things to stop our addiction to oil.  

Amy Nicholass, Lead Candidate for the Green Party in Ceredigion Penfro, says, “The main reason I am standing for the Green Party is that I feel one Government after another at Westminster and the Senedd have let down my generation and those that come after me. I'm absolutely fuming that despite huge amounts of evidence that climate chaos is here already, and is only going to get worse, leading to un-necessary suffering around the world, we have politicians, whose main job is to keep us safe, openly calling for a lifting of the ban on North Sea oil drilling. This is utterly irresponsible behaviour.”  

Amy is referring to Labour MP for Labour, Henry Tufnell who this week stated that, “The road to net zero is through oil and gas.” Such an oxymoron does not go down well with those of us who have been campaigning for a just transition away from fossil fuels that are causing our climate chaos in the first place. 

The latest polls show that Amy has a very good chance of winning a seat in the Senedd. With Greens shaping policies, Wales also has a good chance of becoming a more resilient country, more self-reliant, able to use its own green energy and grow much of its own food.   

As Amy says, “We need to help people working in the fossil fuel industry move with the times to cutting edge, greener, purposeful jobs as soon as possible, not double down our commitment to an industry that is losing its relevance.”