A Surrey woman challenges the decision to allow four new oil wells on climate change grounds.
The test case could have implications for the future of fossil fuel exploration in the UKA Surrey woman will take her fight over a local oil drilling permit to the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a challenge that could spell the end of new fossil fuel projects in the UK.Sarah Finch is challenging the drilling of four oil wells on climate change grounds.
Ms Finch's first challenge in the High Court was thrown out. She took it to the next level, the Court of Appeals, where the three judges were split, with one upholding the appeal. Campaigners including Friends of the Earth say new fossil fuels projects like Horse Hill undermine those promises.Campaigners and experts including the International Energy Agency say all oil and gas must be left in the ground if the world has a chance of meeting climate goals.say the best way to protect consumers from high energy prices is to invest in renewables not fossil fuels.
Friends of the Earth lawyer Katie de Kauwe said it is highly unusual for a private company like West Cumbria Mining to make this type of intervention.
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