Government methane plan in court
Government plans to cut methane emissions are being challenged in court next week by a group campaigning against onshore oil and gas in southern England.
Government plans to cut methane emissions are being challenged in court next week by a group campaigning against onshore oil and gas in southern England.
The decision on plans for drilling and long-term oil production at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey is unlikely to be made this year (2026).
The assessment of the climate impact of expansion at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey contains “multiple errors and misleading and irrelevant information”, campaigners said today.
People have three weeks to comment on the controversial Rosebank development, Britan’s biggest undeveloped oil and gas field.
A company’s assessment of the climate impact of oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey is flawed and any permission based on it would be unlawful, campaigners said today.
Households are facing higher energy bills because the UK is not electrifying fast enough, government advisers warned today.
The site at the centre of a landmark legal challenge is seeking to produce more than 600,000 tonnes of oil over the next 20 years, releasing about two million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
The lawyer who successfully led a landmark challenge on onshore oil and gas at the Supreme Court was appointed an OBE in the King’s birthday honours.
The campaign group behind a landmark legal judgement on carbon emissions has criticised official advice to government on the climate impact of onshore oil and gas.
An investor in the Wressle and West Newton fields warned today that government policy has made its UK business “increasingly difficult to progress”.