'Unlawful and unnecessary': Government hit with legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences

Cecilia Keating
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'Unlawful and unnecessary': Government hit with legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences

Government urged to previously issued revoke oil and gas licenses as it faces legal action from campaigners over approval of dozens of North Sea drilling licenses last year

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...

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