Dorset oil expansion plan needs EIA – government
Plans for more drilling and another 10 years of production at an oil site in Dorset are likely to have “significant effects” on the environment, the government has ruled.
Plans for more drilling and another 10 years of production at an oil site in Dorset are likely to have “significant effects” on the environment, the government has ruled.
A government minister is to decide whether there should be a detailed environmental study of plans to expand oil production in rural Dorset.
Another council has voted unanimously against plans to drill for gas at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Planners are supporting proposals to tanker wastewater from oil wells in southern England to inject into site in a Surrey village to boost production.
The decision over plans to extract oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds looks likely to be delayed.
Plans to explore for gas near a village between Scarborough and Bridlington will not need a detailed environmental assessment, council officials have decided.
Egdon Resources wants to drill for gas at a new site between Bridlington and Scarborough, official documents have shown.
The campaigner behind last year’s Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions has called for strict new rules that would prevent most future oil and gas extraction.
The lawyer representing campaigners behind a landmark judgement at the Supreme Court this year has won a major award.
Keir Starmer has confirmed that the UK will cut carbon emissions by 81% by 2035.