{"id":133214,"date":"2024-08-22T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/unlawful-and-unnecessary-uk-government-hit-with-legal-challenge-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:15:31","slug":"unlawful-and-unnecessary-uk-government-hit-with-legal-challenge-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/unlawful-and-unnecessary-uk-government-hit-with-legal-challenge-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unlawful and unnecessary\u2019: UK: Government hit with legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133214\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The government is facing calls to revoke a flurry of North Sea oil and gas drilling licences handed out during the final months of the previous Conservative administration, after a fresh legal challenge against a spate of these decisions was launched today by environmental charity Oceana.<\/p>\n<p>Oceana this morning confirmed it has lodged a legal challenge with the High Court against decisions made under the previous Conservative government to grant drilling licences to 31 North Sea oil and gas projects in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The legal challenge, which follows through on an initial threat made by the Oceana in June, claims that the approval of new drilling licences in the North Sea was unlawful as the then-government did not consider the risk of potential oil spills to the UK&#8217;s marine protected areas (MPAs), nor did it consider the full impacts of these drilling projects on the climate, including the estimated emissions generated by extracted oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>In the months leading up to the 2024 General Election, the Conservative government approved as many as 82 drilling licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea between October 2023 and May 2024, all of which the charity argues were granted unlawfully. However, Oceana&#8217;s legal challenge itself concerns only the 31 licences approved by the government during May 2024, as UK legal rules require that Judicial Review applications must be filed within three months of the decisions they seek to challenge, a spokesperson for the charity explained.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by the environmental law firm Leigh Day, Oceana said it would argue that former Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho did not pay due regard to the advice of the government&#8217;s statutory advisors &#8211; the Joint Nature Conservation Committee &#8211; when agreeing to press ahead with the North Sea licensing round earlier this year. The charity also claims Coutinho failed to adequately assess the cumulative impacts of licensed drilling activity on the relevant sites, and that she relied on a &#8220;flawed&#8221; assumption than only 50 per cent of licenced drilling would actually end up taking place.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/news\/4349291\/unlawful-unnecessary-government-hit-legal-challenge-north-sea-oil-gas-licences\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/news\/4349291\/unlawful-unnecessary-government-hit-legal-challenge-north-sea-oil-gas-licences\">Business Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/unlawful-and-unnecessary-uk-government-hit-with-legal-challenge-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences\/\">&#8216;Unlawful and unnecessary&#8217;: UK: Government hit with legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2867,579,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-north-sea","tag-uk","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}