UK Energy Strategy: new oil & gas is ‘unbelievably reckless’
The new UK Energy Strategy is criticised for expanding the production of climate-wrecking oil and gas.
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Cambo oil field: Licence extension keeps doomed project on ‘life support’
Criticism of UK Government decision to grant a 2 year extension to the licence to develop the controversial Cambo oil field.
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Shell slammed for oil and gas expansion plans
Environmental campaigners have slammed oil giant Shell for trying to capitalise on the war in Ukraine as an excuse to expand their UK oil and gas operations.
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UK climate advisors call for ‘tighter limit’ on oil and gas
UKCCC advice bolsters calls for end to new oil licenses in a bid to curb dangerous climate warming
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‘Obscene’ BP profits show broken energy system in UK
Environmental campaigners have said that BP’s ‘obscene’ profits of $12.8bn (£9.5bn) today will come at a cost of misery for millions of people in the UK. Campaigners said that the…
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UK Energy System is ‘Fundamentally Broken’
Energy Price Rises & Oil Company Profits Show that the UK Energy System is ‘Fundamentally Broken’
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Shell pull out of Cambo oil project
Climate campaigners have responded to Shell’s decision to pull out of the controversial Cambo oil field saying this is the end of the line for the project. The UK Government…
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Scotland must get on with the fossil fuel transition after COP26, Holyrood committee hears
Campaigners called on Scottish Government to focus on domestic efforts and create a credible plan to cut climate pollution and deliver a just transition away from oil and gas this decade.
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First Minister Signals Opposition to Cambo Oil Field
Reacting to the First Minister’s comments in Holyrood today, Friends of the Earth Scotland Head of Campaigns Mary Church said: “We welcome the First Minister’s acknowledgement that there is no…
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