Opponents of oil production at Biscathorpe in the Lincolnshire Wolds have submitted legal papers in their court challenge against the decision of a planning inspector.
SOS Biscathorpe is seeking to overturn the ruling of Paul Thompson, who granted planning permission last month for 15 years of oil extraction and a new well in the area of outstanding natural beauty.
The planning inspector accepted that plans by Egdon Resources failed to comply with some planning policies and would have “an adverse effect” on the landscape and scenic beauty of the AONB. He also acknowledged that the amount of oil that could be extracted was very small and could be exported.
But Mr Thompson said national need for oil was in the public interest and enough to justify the proposal in the protected area.
Earlier this month, SOS Biscathorpe said the planning inspector’s decision was wrong and should be challenged.
The group’s legal case will be deemed to have been served tomorrow (Tuesday 19 December 2023).
Egdon Resources and Lincolnshire County Council then have 21 days to respond.
The legal challenge is the latest stage in an eight-year campaign against Egdon Resources at Biscathorpe.
Lincolnshire County Council’s planning committee refused planning permission for oil production and the extra well on the opening day of the Glasgow climate talks in November 2021.
Egdon later appealed and made its case to Mr Thompson at a hearing almost a year later.
The legal challenge to the inspector’s ruling is brought by environmental campaigner, Mathilda Dennis. She said:
“SOS Biscathorpe is fighting on behalf of every community up and down the UK that wants to protect its natural environment for the long term health of the planet and its people.”
Ms Dennis is represented by Leigh Day. Her solicitor, Julia Eriksen, said:
“Our client is steadfastly continuing her long battle of fighting oil development in Lincolnshire Wolds AONB and have instructed us to prepare a claim for statutory review.
“The Inspector acknowledged that the development would cause harm to the AONB however allowed the appeal regardless.
“This case will also argue that the Inspectors’ approach to the legal requirements for assessing downstream greenhouse gas emissions, which is relevant to many other fossil fuel developments, was flawed.”
SOS Biscathorpe needs to raise £20,000 to bring the case. So far, it has raised more than £5,225 from 120 donations. Link to fundraising website
DRILL OR DROP? 
Nope, Jack, I explained for you, you were the one unable to grasp the information. I will not repeat it as you obviously have no interest in gaining any knowledge whatsoever. That is your choice but please do not then compound your ignorance by stating I have ever encouraged anyone to invest in STAR ENERGY (IGAS). Neither would I encourage anyone to do so for Tesla. With both, money can be/has been made trading if you buy at the right price and sell at the right price, and in that respect fluctuations in price are a benefit. The problem is with both, those fluctuations have to be predicted accurately and they can go up or down and have done so for BOTH on a number of occasions! Your avoidance of that doesn’t change the FACT, Jack. I will not insult the readers by supplying links to show that, it really is very easy to observe for anyone who wants to.
For a more settled life one would want to invest in a business that provided a dividend (income) and then, within reason, the fluctuations in share price would not matter so much-as long as the income was secure. If one enjoys a riskier sort of life then spin the wheel and trust you can predict where it will stop. Probability may come into it but based upon your previous posts Jack, you may not be the best at calculating that.
I note other confusion/myths with such as “demand will change when the supply is altered”. Well, nope, that is not factual in UK for oil, although it may be in N.Korea. What happens in UK is that price changes and people keep on buying but buy less of other things. Easy to check price elasticity but that is not necessary for anyone who has lived in UK during 2022 and 2023 and been observant. Those who have avoided price inflation well done them, but few and far between.
I know people love to modify history but find it odd when they try to modify what is such recent fact and yet to even be history. Must be a new definition of anti matter. Doesn’t matter to the anti, but the reality left for everyone else. In other words, Jack, an explanation for propaganda.
Well MARTIN,
It’s a jolly good job , nobody takes note of what you say old chap / old lady , as TESLA shares have jumped more than 19,480 % 🤣
“HAPPY DAYS” for those who invested in TESLA
Sorry to be the bear 🐻 of (in Martin Collywaffle’s interpretation?) bad news, but the civitas reference is entirely inaccurate and you’d do well to move on to avoid further embarrassment 😳
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/29/how-a-thinktank-got-the-cost-of-net-zero-for-the-uk-wildly-wrong
Sorry MiniRattled, I will go with Civitas, rather than the Guardian!
I would suggest you note when Buffett warned about the risk of inflation, the Fed, BOE, politicians and then media all reported within short time that would not happen. But it did. It was obvious it was a very high risk, it was obvious those with an axe to grind would try and discount it. I prefer those that think rather than those that grind. There are those within the media who can change an economic forecast to economic fact within an hour, yet will not correct it when the forecast is shown within months not to be true.
Perhaps you, or the Guardian could actually start with where the £20-£30b/year will come from to replace Fuel Duty? That one is just a straight swap and has yet to be brought into the light of day. Seven new nuclear power stations at over £200B, that have just emerged from down the back of the sofa, but were actually specified by the Chief Scientific Officer many years ago-when he warned that the grinders could not dismiss the Laws of Physics or Arithmetic!! Made his views known within the Guardian, yet “strangely” the lesson has somehow been dismissed. The axe grinders? Oh yes, if he had lived he would have changed his mind and the French are going to donate nuclear power stations to the UK, and those politicians that the Guardian supports in denial they were required-accept they may have thought again and come to a different conclusion. Then, Joe public expected to forget the “delights” and arithmetic of PFIs.
I really would not worry about my embarrassment when there is Jack to demonstrate the depth of the anti arithmetic and economic awareness! Remembering it was also Jack who also posted in the past, with some bitterness, that no one was taking any notice of HIM, whilst pontificating about arithmetic? Nope, PROPAGANDA. Nice of you to add your squeak, Rattled, but I will still decide what information I find believable. The Group has yet to show me they Think, so sorry I will not be signing up to their version. I will go with arithmetic. I will also note there has been an absence of nuclear power stations that have been built to budget, and that no long term nuclear waste storage has yet to be planned for UK so any costing will be speculation but with HS2 standards will require some noughts to be kept up some sleeves.
Just a thought, but whoever does the costings why would the costings not have been provided when Net Zero was signed into Law? Oh, of course, it was all going to be an insignificant amount! Now, excuse me Rattled, but that will embarrass quite a few going forward, but I have already accepted it will be my grandchildren not me, plus a few eco zealots. All I can offer the grandchildren, is DYOR, avoid the Guardian and sorry you will see where your (£)inheritance has gone but will be “joyful” that you have inherited that Garden of Eden. Which “strangely” is just what the Guardian has always been about.
I will continue to be joyful that, once again after many centuries, the English grape harvest has succeeded, enjoy it in my garden until population growth means that Zero gardens are signed into Law, then smiling whilst more money is required to avoid flooding that is all down to “climate change”. Forgetting I ever had the opportunity to learn about sponges-or beavers.
Not sure whether Civitas even added in the cost of household food inflation world wide that was produced when the USA started to process maize into fuel and US farmers decided planting more maize and less soya was good for their bank balance. I observed it at first hand as an animal nutritionist decades ago when here in UK US crop plantings were watched avidly to see what was going on, and then trying to mitigate against that knowing that little could be done and the higher cost of soya into animal feed was a given and so was higher costs of the animals when they arrived on plates. Wonder why that has not featured in the Guardian?
I would add Happy New Year, but for Guardian readers happiness is probably a right wing delusion.
Well MARTIN , after chewing through your above “OPINION ONLY” based Collywaffle , void as usual of any evidence
I can honestly say, I really don’t know where to start , as you bring up so many things , Garden Of Eden , US Farmers , Animal Feed , US Crop Planting , HS2 , English Grape Harvest , Flooding Grandchildren … In fact the only thing you didn’t mention is the TINMAN from the Wizard Of Oz
Sadly , it”s abundantly clear you only have a minor grasp on inflation matters within an economy , a point I’m sure is not lost on the readers .
Don’t worry MARTIN , this mythical £200bn figure you keep talking about for new , nuclear power stations may NOT fall on the UK Taxpayer to fund .
https://www.edfenergy.com/about/nuclear
EDF helping the UK achieve net zero , happy days MARTIN .
Ahh, more of Jack the Lad Emperor exposing his little peccadillos, without anyone to support that he has any clothes at all!
Yes, EDF-the French Government-may well happily help UK achieve Net Zero, and will thankfully trouser the money paid to do so, and the UK households will foot the bill. Easy to see how £6k/year can be built up, isn’t it! You are confusing nuclear power stations with the Statue of Liberty, Jack. In one case it was a gift, a gesture of goodwill, in another a commercial enterprise which will be paid for. Jack, you can check which is which, others will already be aware-unless they are Guardian readers and have adapted the student union approach to arithmetic and economics, where someone else always pays. I can see why you should be so concerned about anyone knowing something about what they post, Jack, but on a public forum you will encounter it so maybe join rather than try and deflect?
What were you waffling on about economies and inflation, Jack? For those readers who are unaware of the evidence, as Jack would appear to be, it is pretty easy to check what the costs will be for new nuclear to UK TAX PAYERS, it is already in the public domain for Hinkley Point. So much absolute nonsense from the Emperor in a vain attempt to try and maintain the actual myth that renewables are cheap, whilst the proof of that pudding is already evident to everyone in UK paying an energy bill. Lord HawHaw was more believable. I don’t think he actually stated any year between 1939 and 1945 was “normal”.
However, for those who want some evidence on another matter, from the Mirror:
A 2.5 magnitude earthquake recorded in Buxton.
“However, it was so low on the (Richter ) scale, that the locals may not have felt a thing, it would be little more than a slight shake.”
Happy days, Jack.
MARTIN ,
Your ignorance on economics is shining through like a beacon of light from a lighthouse . You must think we’ve all just fallen out of the sky , if you think you can palm us of with that pile of Collywaffle.
Please for the sake of the readers , to the nearest £ BILLION put the annual cost of extreme climate change on UK homes currently ?????? ( This is set to only get worse, year on year ) …… If you actually lived in the UK , you’d be aware of the current devastation , or maybe you’ve lost so much on yor investments in these TWO BIT companies that you just don’t care about people’s misery.
.£6,000 a year you say , let’s see your evidence ?????? Again I say, don’t forget to factor in the cost off runaway climate change before the end of this century……. Maybe the money wasted on endless wars could be put towards helping achieve NET ZERO , now there’s an idea .
Jack surely you aren’t suggesting that the recent flooding in England is unprecedented and is being caused by Global Warming ? The Met Office’s own figures show the rainfall in December 2023 was not unusual and was exceeded 10 times between 1991 and 2020. If you want to see a detailed analysis of the truth can I suggest you go to :
http://websites.milonic.com/notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
and look for Storm Henk.
My view is that BEFORE we destroy our economy over Net Zero we need a better understanding of the data and consequences than that provided by dodgy computer models which have been shown to be completely hopeless at predicting anything. The only ones benefitting from our stupidity are our competitors, eg China. Do you see ANY evidence that they will stop building coal fired power stations or even any evidence of them slowing down ?
Just watched Countryfile, absolutely disgusting for Government to have granted even more licenses for more drilling. It should be stopped. It’s not okay to destroy the planet for private profit. “My view is that BEFORE we destroy our economy over Net Zero we need a better understanding of the data”. The data is clearly understood and has been for years. Green Technology is a massive growth industry.
Just Stop Oil. All new drilling licenses should be stopped. Man-made climate change. ” BEFORE we destroy our economy over Net Zero we need a better understanding of the data”. The data has been understood for decades and large oil companies have for over 30 years been paying a small fortune to discredit climate change science and spreading misinformation. It is already too late and doing nothing is not an option. Climate change has already killed millions and it will get worse. Green Technology is large growth sector and should be encouraged as much as possible.