UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised today for his government’s plans to expand North Sea oil and gas extraction, while promoting renewable energy at the COP27 climate talks.
The former Green Party MEP and environmental campaigner, Keith Taylor, has died, aged 69.
Rishi Sunak has hinted that the moratorium on fracking for shale gas in England will be reinstated.
Conservative MPs in shale gas areas have reacted angrily to the announcement by Jacob Rees-Mogg, that the moratorium on fracking had been lifted.
Climate campaigners have called for higher taxes on oil and gas companies after BP announced a tripling of profits this morning.
The energy minister, Greg Hands, sidestepped a question about the investment tax allowance proposed under the windfall tax for oil and gas companies.
Disruption by climate campaigners today forced Shell to pause its first AGM since moving headquarters to London.
The government announced today it was reviving plans to make the popular protest technique of locking on a criminal offence.
Labour has failed to block the government’s new policing bill which includes restrictions on the right to protest and criminalises unauthorised encampments.
More than 600 people have signed an open letter to senior police officers calling for an end to the categorisation of political campaigning as “domestic extremism”.
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