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Liz Truss to approve up to 130 new oil drilling licenses as soon as she becomes PM
The climate change committee has previously said it takes an average of 28 years for an exploration licence to lead to oil and gas production.
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Boris Johnson returns from Saudi Arabia empty handed after begging dictators for oil increase
Despite Johnson’s meeting with bin Salman for 1 hour and 45 minutes there was little sign of a breakthrough.
‘Going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy strategy’: Boris Johnson slammed for begging Saudi dictator for help
'Saying we are not going to rely on Russia and then going to Saudi Arabia is not an energy strategy.'
Institute of Economic Affairs accused of ‘new kind of climate denialism’ after ‘rubbishing net-zero targets’
The IEA has rejected climate change targets as ‘arbitrary’.
This could be the next big battle in the fight against ‘a new oil rush’ in the UK
Prospectors are eyeing up a shale reserve in South East England that could contain up to 19 billion barrels of oil.
Breaking: campaigners have occupied a controversial oil drilling site in Surrey
Activists say they have set up a "protection camp" to stop drilling which is due to begin imminently.