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Members of the Planning Committee spent several hours hearing about the application before making their decision
UKOG
UK Oil and Gas PLC is a UK-based oil and gas exploration and production company.
The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the Alternative Investment Market.
They have licences to drill for oil on the Isle of Wight in the Arreton Area.
Below are articles mentioning UKOG.
·1 min read
Many will be interested in the outcome of today's Planning Committee meeting, but with limited space in the public gallery the IWC is encouraging residents to watch online
·8 min read
UKOG wants to drill for oil in Arreton. Bob Seely recently announced that he’d put in an objection to their planning application. This letter (shown in full) claims he met them in Westminster in Aug 2019 and told them he wouldn’t object. MP refutes the claims
·3 min read
Chair of the Isle of Wight Green Party shares her thoughts on being green following the Planning Committee's unanimous rejection of oil drilling application
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Alison Goodchild believes the UKOG planning application for oil exploration has been submitted under cover of a global pandemic and calls for it to be deferred
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Anti-fracking campaigners are asking Isle of Wight landowners to consider the full implications of granting leases to oil and gas exploration companies.
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XR Ventnor say there should have been a Citizens' Assembly to decide the outcome of drilling for oil on the Isle of Wight and call on the IW council to move all net zero targets to 2030
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The Chair of the Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) has submitted an objection to UKOG's planning application for an oil drilling well in Arreton. You can have your say on the planning Website
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Campaigners say the entire process is being left to virtual meetings and social media - "and yet will determine the future of acres of countryside at the heart of the Isle of Wight for twenty years or more"
·4 min read
Bob Seely MP has set out a range of objections to the plans for oil drilling on the Isle of Wight, which he states would be entirely inappropriate for the Island. Read them in full here
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A licence for oil exploration in a 200 sq km area on the Isle of Wight was approved in the same week Parliament approved changes allowing fracking in National Parks, AONBs and SSSIs.
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This reader sets out why she feels it's important for Bob Seely MP to speak out at the upcoming backbench debate "COP26 and limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°c"
