🧩 BND Motif Index · M1226
We'll burn it anyway
Stopping a field at home is said to change only where the fuel comes from: the gas is burned anyway, shipped in from abroad at a higher cost in money and emissions, so better ours than theirs.
- 2claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Keep it in the ground counter: stop the fields, or burn imported gas instead
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “if we didn't do Jackdaw, it would otherwise come from LNG not Norway” “it will not lead to higher gas consumption in this country ... if it stops us importing liquefied natural gas from America” “we started importing refined oil, refined product, importing it, which is even worse for the environment.” “we will be using oil and gas, its just you're happy for it to be drilled in other countries rather than the UK” “we're now shutting down domestic oil production, but we're not really reducing the amount we use, we're just substituting imports”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “Shutting down domestic oil production forces California to import oil via polluting super tankers.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-22 “Jackdaw's gas replaces imported LNG, so it won't add to UK gas use or emissions.”
M1226 · first seen 2026-10-25 · last 2026-10-29 · what this is · how the index works