{"id":64082,"date":"2024-06-25T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=64082"},"modified":"2024-06-25T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:05:44","slug":"uk-activists-win-landmark-ruling-on-oil-wells-inevitable-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/uk-activists-win-landmark-ruling-on-oil-wells-inevitable-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK activists win landmark ruling on oil well\u2019s \u2018inevitable\u2019 emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/uk-activists-win-landmark-ruling-on-oil-wells-inevitable-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Energy Mix<\/a> on June 25, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Christopher Bonasia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Climate advocates are increasingly\u2014and successfully\u2014demanding that courts hold regional decision-makers accountable for ignoring planet-warming pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In the United Kingdom, Supreme Court judges ruled in a three-to-two majority that a local planning authority, Surrey County Council, should have considered the downstream emissions of burning oil from new wells before granting it approval to expand,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cxwwzmn12g9o\">reports<\/a>\u00a0BBC News. The ruling could have implications for future oil and gas projects under consideration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_custom_content_wrapper single-post-content \">\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">\n<p>The case relates to a 2019 council decision to grant the Horse Hill oil well planning permission to expand operations. By a local regulation, such permission is conditional on developers producing an environmental impact assessment that determines \u201cthe likely \u2018direct and indirect significant effects\u2019 of the project on the environment,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brodies.com\/insights\/litigation\/landmark-uk-supreme-court-climate-judgment-finch-v-surrey-county-council-2024-uksc-20\/\">writes<\/a>\u00a0Brodies LLP.<\/p>\n<p>The council told the court it thought it had been acting lawfully\u2014as in the past, councils have considered only impacts from well construction, not the final use of oil products.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, the approval was challenged by former Surrey resident Sarah Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group. The case was rejected by a High Court and then again by an appeals court before being heard by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice George Leggatt said it was \u201cinevitable\u201d that the oil from the site will produce emissions that are \u201cstraightforwardly results of the project,\u201d and so should be considered. Friends of the Earth, which backed the case, estimated that new wells would produce 3.3 million tonnes of crude oil in the next two decades\u2014and more than 10 millions tonnes of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole purpose of extracting fossil fuels is to make hydrocarbons available for combustion,\u201d the court judgement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/amp.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/landmark-supreme-court-ruling-throws-doubt-on-new-uk-fossil-fuel-projects\">stated<\/a>. \u201cIt can therefore be said with virtual certainty that, once oil has been extracted from the ground, the carbon contained within it will sooner or later be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and so will contribute to global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Hawai\u2019i, 13 youth climate activists reached a settlement with the state\u2019s Department of Transportation for violating their constitutional right to a \u201cclean and healthful environment\u201d by being \u201ca major and increasing contributor\u201d to the state\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2024\/06\/21\/hawaii-youth-climate-settlement-transport\/\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2024\/06\/21\/hawaii-youth-climate-settlement-transport\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Under the settlement, the Transportation Department will work toward a plan to achieve zero emissions in all ground transportation, and inter island sea and air transportation, by 2045. The terms of the settlement are enforceable in court for the next 21 years until they are achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Navahine v. Hawai\u02bbi Department of Transportation<\/em>\u00a0is the world\u2019s first youth-led constitutional climate case addressing climate pollution from the transportation sector,\u201d Our Children\u2019s Trust and EarthJustice, which represented the youth activists,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourchildrenstrust.org\/press-releases\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a joint release.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the settlement is groundbreaking, with government defendants deciding \u201cto resolve a constitutional climate case in partnership with youth plaintiffs, committing to comprehensive changes and the systemic decarbonization of a state transportation system to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fossil fuel dependence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawai\u2019i is also involved in another climate case: the state is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/21\/climate\/hawaii-youth-climate-lawsuit.html\">suing<\/a>\u00a0major oil companies for misleading the public about the risks of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>And another lawsuit is percolating in Maine, where youth groups and environmental advocates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mainemorningstar.com\/2024\/06\/21\/maine-ag-asks-court-to-dismiss-suit-a\">allege<\/a>\u00a0the Maine Department of Environmental Protection is not doing enough to cut emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"climate-news-network\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"canadian-press\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ccnow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This article was published by The Energy Mix on June 25, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia Climate advocates are increasingly\u2014and successfully\u2014demanding that courts hold regional decision-makers accountable for ignoring planet-warming pollution. In the United Kingdom, Supreme <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/uk-activists-win-landmark-ruling-on-oil-wells-inevitable-emissions\/\" title=\"UK activists win landmark ruling on oil well\u2019s \u2018inevitable\u2019 emissions\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":64083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,80,14,95,266,2085,801],"class_list":{"0":"post-64082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-fossil-fuels","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-uk"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>emissions - 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