Campaigners approved to take UK Government to court on North Sea oil plans

Campaigners approved to take UK Government to court on North Sea oil plans

A group of climate campaigners have received approval to take the UK Government to the High Court over its North Sea oil plans.

In May, Paid for Pollute, backed by the non-profit Uplift and several other groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, applied for a judicial review into the UK Government's support for the Oil and Gas Authority's (OGA) new strategy.

The campaign group claims that the OGA and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is illegally supporting oil and gas activity which is "not economic" and in conflict with net zero goals.