Government admits climate policies don’t meet emissions targets
UK policies to cut carbon emissions fall short of national and international commitments, the government admitted today.
UK policies to cut carbon emissions fall short of national and international commitments, the government admitted today.
The UK government has rejected all the recommendations of a cross-party committee of MPs to speed up decarbonisation of energy supply.
The government was urged today to speed up the shift to decarbonised electricity, after it was accused of being “asleep at the wheel”.
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
Climate campaigners this morning sprayed fake oil on London offices with links to the fossil fuel industry.
Forecasting earthquakes caused by fracking is still “a scientific challenge”, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said in a report published today.
Carbon emissions from UK oil and gas production fell by more than a fifth from 2018-21, the industry regulator said in a report published today. But the sector is not on course to meet its emissions reduction target in 2030 and carbon pollution per gallon of oil actually […]
Rathlin Energy is apparently no longer targeting oil at its two sites at West Newton in East Yorkshire.
The government has now missed its own deadline by two years for decisions on shale gas schemes in south Yorkshire and Cheshire.
Oil and gas wells planned in East Yorkshire could be drilled under five villages, new maps have revealed.