get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions the prime minister s expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle later this morning, as he replaces conservative party chairman nadhim zahawi. a third earthquake hit central turkey early this morning, as the rescue operation continues across the region to try to find survivors of the two massive quakes which struck yesterday. in the last few minutes, we ve learned that now more than 5,000 people are known to have died in turkey and in northern syria, with that number rising all the time. these are the scenes live in hatay in southern turkey. many images that we ve seen of the quake since yesterday morning have come from the city. you can see on the left of the screen how those buildings have been pancaked, flattened by the two huge tremors, really the 7.8 quake we heard about which struck just really the 7.8 quake we heard about which struckjust before dawn yesterday. and then a few hours later another quake of around
in 2022, and i think it is really important to acknowledge that oil and gas companies like bp and shell are getting richer because the rest of us are getting poorer, because our energy bills are so high right now and, you know, the knock effect of that, it is huge, as we were hearing, sick and disabled people living in cold and draughty homes. here in the uk, supposedly one of the richest countries in the world, you know, there is complete chaos across the public sector, of course, with nurses, firefighters, teachers all striking because they are struggling too and the government will not give them a pay rise. and this isn t an accident, this is a political choice, so as you have acknowledged, we are calling for companies to be properly taxed, properly and permanently taxed, and we are notjust talking about windfall tax, we are calling for the uk government to match the approach taken in norway, which is to impose
a proper and permanent tax of 78% on oil and gas companies, and estimates suggest that would free up £33.3 billionjust from suggest that would free up £33.3 billion just from that tax alone, thatis billion just from that tax alone, that is not even speaking of scrapping the very generous tax breaks for oil and gas companies in this country, and obviously that would free up money that is desperately needed to give brits long term support for the cost of their energy bills and to give our key work as the financial recognition they deserve. isn’t key work as the financial recognition they deserve. isn t that auoin to recognition they deserve. isn t that going to lead recognition they deserve. isn t that going to lead to recognition they deserve. isn t that going to lead to the recognition they deserve. isn t that going to lead to the energy - recognition they deserve. isn t that l going to lead to the energy company saying, we will not invest as much money in renewables, in ener
problem as it is good when fossil fuelled giants are investing in transition, but the problem is when you have large one of, it is very hard for that to be captured in proper new effective investment not because it takes time, this locked in over decades, and it s hard for the companies to invest, unlikely to flow in that direction much more likely to flow back to shareholders, orthrough much more likely to flow back to shareholders, or through dividends, and i would just add in particular the problem with the way taxing these companies is that there is a relief in the windfall tax, gives 91p back in touch with every £1 spent, and that is an effective lipo which i know ki is a big dead weight
into the real motives of bp if it doesn t make them enough money, they will not transition to renewables. you know, and i think there is a bigger point here to be made about the whole oil and gas sector in the uk context, which is that, of all the companies that are currently operating in our north sea, obviously our biggest oil and gas reserve, three quarters of those companies invest nothing in renewables in this country. and of the ones that are investing in renewables, a large number of those are using that renewable energy to power their oil and gas platforms. they are not putting renewable energy into the grid. so these are not green, climate friendly companies. fossilfuels are not green, climate friendly companies. fossil fuels are the single biggest cause of climate breakdown, and these companies are peddling very much in the opposite direction. you peddling very much in the opposite direction. :, :, peddling very much in the opposite direction- - - direction. you mentioned