This bill bans new licenses for oil and gas extraction and onshore fracking, and requires the Oil and Gas Authority to phase out petroleum and plan transition to renewables by 2050.
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
Status: In Progress
Current House: Lords
Stage: 1st reading
Sponsored by: Baroness Sheehan
Introduced: 2022-03-24