Parliamentary Bills

Petroleum (Amendment) Bill [HL]

Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)

Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2019-21

Last updated: 5 May 2021 at 12:36

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Long title

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

Sponsor

Baroness Sheehan
Liberal Democrat
Life peer

Current version of the Bill

HL Bill 27 (as introduced)
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15 January 2020
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