Kemi Badenoch has committed conservatives to extract as many oil and gas as possible from the North Sea.
The conservative party leader said it was “absurd” to leave the fuel resources without exploiting.
But the Government said that issuing new licenses for oil and gas exploration “would not remove a penny of invoices” and accelerate the “climate crisis that worsens.”
A conservative government would make “maximize extraction” be its objective if it gains power, instead of measures aimed at removing the northern sea industry of fossil fuels.
Mrs. Badenoch will use a speech in Aberdeen on Tuesday to establish her plans.
She will announce that the Tories plan to completely review the transition authority of the North Sea (NSTA), which supervises the issuance of licenses, dropping the word transition and giving it a simple order to extract the maximum possible amount of fossil fuels.
Before her speech, Mrs. Badenoch promised that “we are going to get all our oil and gas from the North Sea.”
She said: “We are in the absurd situation in which our country is leaving vital resources without exploiting while neighbors like Norway extract them from the same seabed.
“With the ONS (National Statistics Office) confirming that economic growth has decreased in part due to the fall in oil and gas extraction, we cannot afford not to do everything to remove hydrocarbons.
“Great Britain has already decarbonized more than any other important economy since 1990, however, we face some of the highest prices of energy in the developed world.
“This is not sustainable and cannot continue. That is why I am calling in this unilateral act of economic disarmament and the impossible ideology of work of Net Zero by 2050.
“The Russian war in Ukraine has only stressed that our energy supplies are a matter of national security.”
An energy security and Net zero spokesperson department said: “We are already delivering a fair and ordered transition in the North Sea to boost growth and ensure qualified jobs for future generations, with the greatest investment in the wind on the high seas and three clusters of carbon capture and storage first of a class.
“We are committed to delivering the commitment of the manifesto not to issue new licenses to explore new fields because they will not take a penny of invoices, they cannot do energy and only accelerate the climatic crisis that worsens.”
