EU is trying to seize the control of British offshore oil and gas drilling rights

[Onur]

Now the EU wants to get its hands on Britain's oil and gas
You might think that, what with everything that's going on in Spain and Greece, Eurocrats had plenty on their plates. You'd be wrong. The EU's cupidity is unsleeping, for all that its recent initiatives have been driven from our news pages by the travails of the eurozone.

You almost certainly haven't read anything about the latest power grab – although, if you are British, it should alarm you. Brussels wants to regulate offshore oil and gas drilling. British energy companies and trade unions are united in their fury, pointing out that the European Commission is openly seeking 'the Europeanisation of energy powers'. Since Britain is overwhelmingly the EU's largest offshore energy producer – until six years ago, we were the EU's only net energy exporter – the industry frets that the loss of UK supervision would shift regulatory control into unfriendly hands.

We have, after all, been here before. Maritime law gives Britain ownership of fish stocks out to 200 miles or the median line: some sixty per cent of the fish in the North Sea. Under the Common Fisheries Policy, though, we are allocated a quota equivalent to 25 per cent by volume or 15 per cent by value. Luxembourg, Austria and Slovakia get a vote on the administration of the CFP: one more negotiating chip in their hands.

By the same token, EU-wide rules on offshore drilling will involve all 27 governments, even though 90 per cent of all such drilling takes place on the territory of just four member states. As with proposals for a Financial Transactions Tax, it would be the CFP all over again.

The EU's hideous strength resides partly in its ability to keep arrogating powers to itself quietly, mechanically, unnoticed. If you're a committed integrationist, you don't have to win the argument. Indeed, you don't have to have the argument. You simply have to sit back and let the institutions do their work.

June 18th, 2012

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...s-oil-and-gas/

This is also the no:1 reason of why Norway is not and will never be a member of EU because that would be a madness.

[Pretan]

British Membership of this USSR clone is going to end in the near future, the British public have been vastly opposed to the EU for years now. The current government promised a referendum on the subject but then backtracked when they realised they wouldn't win it for their political masters in Brussels. This will only strengthen the Eurosceptic, Pro-British independance cause.

[Albion]

They proposed this years ago, I think I posted something about it before. We need to leave the EU and to take our country back.