Campaign group Paid to Pollute has engaged law firm Leigh Day to apply for the High Court to undertake a judicial review of the Oil and Gas Authority's recently updated strategy. This quote from Leigh Day is highly pertinent:
"Our clients’ case is that the OGA’s new strategy encourages companies to produce oil and gas without considering the economic repercussions of that on the public purse and the UK as a whole. This means that, in some circumstances, such production is not ‘economic’ for the UK as a whole, but the OGA is still seeking to maximise it."
This comes about because on of the bases of the OGA's strategy is that it has "a legal duty to maximise economic recovery" of oil and gas. This is hardly a recipe for net zero!
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