A Bill to prohibit licensing to search and bore for petroleum and onshore hydraulic fracturing activities; to amend the principal objective for the Oil and Gas Authority to be to meet the carbon reduction target for 2050 under the Climate Change Act 2008; and to provide for the Oil and Gas Authority to produce strategies which include the phasing out of the extraction and use of petroleum and transitional planning towards renewable energies
House of Lords
5 May 2021
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This Bill would ban licensing to search and bore for petroleum and to carry out onshore hydraulic fracturing. It would also shift the Oil and Gas Authority’s main job to help meet the 2050 carbon-reduction target and require the Authority to develop strategies that phase out petroleum extraction and use, with transitional planning towards renewable energy.
The bill is at the Second Reading in the Lords. It originated in the Lords and had its First Reading on 15 January 2020.
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15 Jan 2020
First reading took place on 15 January. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.
Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.
The 2019-2021 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
