All 1 contributions to the Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL] 2019-21

Wed 15th Jan 2020
Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Lords Chamber

1st reading (Hansard) & 1st reading & 1st reading (Hansard): House of Lords & 1st reading (Hansard) & 1st reading (Hansard): House of Lords

Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL]

1st reading & 1st reading (Hansard): House of Lords & 1st reading (Hansard)
Wednesday 15th January 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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First Reading
15:43
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.
The Bill was introduced by Baroness Sheehan, read a first time and ordered to be printed.