Expert Comment: Today’s Jackdaw decision is a strategic blunder that could cost future generations

Tuesday 27 Oct 2026
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Cassandra Etter-Wenzel, DPhil candidate in the School of Geography and the Environment and researcher with the Environmental Change Institute and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and Dr Anupama Sen, Head of Policy Engagement at the Smith School, argue that the debate over the Jackdaw gas field focused on the wrong questions, and that its gas would have been worth more to the UK held in reserve for future generations.

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