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
28 April 2022
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This bill would stop licences for searching for or drilling for petroleum, including onshore hydraulic fracturing (fracking). It also changes the main objective of the Oil and Gas Authority so it focuses on meeting the 2050 carbon reduction target. Finally, it requires the OGA to produce strategies that include phasing out petroleum extraction and moving planning towards renewable energy.
The bill is at its 1st reading in the Lords (dated 24 March 2022), an early stage of parliamentary scrutiny with no committee stage yet.
Generated 21 February 2026
24 Mar 2022
First reading took place on 24 March. 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 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
