The government risks undermining its goals to cut methane emissions without stricter regulations on onshore oil and gas operations, environmental campaigners have argued.
The company that runs Wytch Farm, the UK’s largest onshore oilfield, has been fined a record sum for releasing gas without permission.
Oil and gas operators must take action to reduce flaring and venting, the industry regulator said today.
The industry regulator has revised down recent monthly volumes for methane vented at the Kimmeridge oil well in Dorset to almost nothing.
The UK government has rejected all the recommendations of a cross-party committee of MPs to speed up decarbonisation of energy supply.
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
Members of the South Downs National Park Authority have called for stricter controls on how oil could be produced in future.
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