Government rejects MPs’ call on flaring and oil and gas licensing
The UK government has rejected all the recommendations of a cross-party committee of MPs to speed up decarbonisation of energy supply.
The UK government has rejected all the recommendations of a cross-party committee of MPs to speed up decarbonisation of energy supply.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.
UK electricity will be 95% low carbon by 2030, with a “major acceleration of homegrown power”, the government announced tonight.
Opponents of fossil fuel developments in southern England have described the government’s climate criteria for future oil and gas licences as “inherently flawed”.
The would-be fracking firm, Third Energy, has been acquired by a renewables company, which plans to use old gas wells to generate geothermal energy.
The licensing of thousands of square miles of English countryside for fracking five years ago has resulted in no wells and no oil or gas.
A peer is seeking to change the law to ban fracking and the licensing of oil and gas exploration.
An application for a licence to explore for shale gas in south west County Fermanagh has prompted questions and opposition among anti-fracking campaigners and local people.
A dozen onshore oil and gas licences, including one in Scotland, have been extended even though the operators have not met commitments to drill an exploration well.