The former Conservative leadership contender, Jeremy Hunt, said today it was “extraordinary” that the UK, with its net zero target, was even thinking about plans to drill for gas at Dunsfold in Surrey.
Opponents of controversial gas drilling plans near the Surrey village of Dunsfold say they will put their toes on the line to show that large lorries will be forced to break the law when visiting the proposed site.
Environmental campaigners have dismissed statements by Angus Energy that proposed production from its Brockham site in Surrey would help meet a national need for oil.
A 17-year-old climate activist from Brockham in Surrey is urging local people to object to plans for 15 years of oil production plans in her village as the deadline approaches for public comments.
Campaigners said this morning that a climate camp on land proposed for gas exploration in Surrey had been cleared by bailiffs.
A former senior council officer is challenging the authority he worked for over its support for the major expansion of an oil site.
Major plans for oil and gas production in East Yorkshire are “fundamentally flawed and should be refused”, experts said today.
The city that will host an international climate conference later this year, will invest hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels indefinitely under a new policy, environmental campaigners said today.
People from Donington on Bain in Lincolnshire adapted a local tradition of a duck race on a protected chalk stream to highlight concerns about nearby oil production plans.
Climate campaigners blockaded an entrance to the UK’s largest oil refinery, at Fawley in Hampshire today.
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