drilling

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2022-03-10

Locals near Eden Project say mini-earthquake sounded ‘like a bomb going off’ as firm halts drilling

Hundreds of homes near the Eden Project in Cornwall are rocked by mini-earthquake caused by geothermal drilling: Locals say 1.6…
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Politics

2022-01-24

Climate change: More drilling for North Sea gas is an unrealistic strategy for bringing down energy prices, Alok Sharma says

COP26 president Alok Sharma MP has told Sky News that extracting more gas from the North Sea is not a…
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Politics

2021-09-01

UK government challenged in court by Greenpeace over BP North Sea oil drilling licence

The UK government’s decision to grant oil giant BP a permit to drill for oil in the North Sea will…
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Politics

2021-08-27

Climate change: Boris Johnson condemned over ‘downright dangerous’ plan to allow North Sea fuel drilling

The UK government’s policy on allowing the extraction of new oil and gas from the North Sea is “downright dangerous”,…
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