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Reach, along with petrochemical giant [[Ineos]], sought to challenge the Scottish Government’s decision to impose a ban on fracking and unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland . <ref> https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=11524c56-530e-474a-ab6f-46751fb92c29 Landmark legal challenge as mining companies seek to overturn Scottish fracking ban], Leigh Day, 30 April 2018 </ref> | Reach, along with petrochemical giant [[Ineos]], sought to challenge the Scottish Government’s decision to impose a ban on fracking and unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland . <ref> https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=11524c56-530e-474a-ab6f-46751fb92c29 Landmark legal challenge as mining companies seek to overturn Scottish fracking ban], Leigh Day, 30 April 2018 </ref> | ||
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| + | ===Ineos PEDL licence extended in 2019 for the second time === | ||
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| + | On 1 July 2019 the Scottish Government renewed an onshore petroleum exploration and development licence PEDL 162, which is 80 per cent owned by Ineos and permits fracking and other underground gas extraction technologies. The licence covers 400sq km to the south and west of Falkirk, and was extended for another year. | ||
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| + | :PEDL 162 was originally granted by the Westminster government to a firm called [[Reach Coal Seam Gas]] in 2008. Ineos bought four-fifths of the licence in 2014, and responsibility for licensing was devolved to Holyrood in February 2018. <ref> Rob Edwards, [https://theferret.scot/pedl-162-ineos-fracking-licence-renewed/ Scottish Government move to renew Ineos fracking licence ‘disappointing’], The Ferret, 1 July 2019, accessed same day </ref> | ||
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Reach Coal Seam Gas is an oil and gas company.
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Party to judicial review of Scottish fracking ban
Reach, along with petrochemical giant Ineos, sought to challenge the Scottish Government’s decision to impose a ban on fracking and unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland . [1]
Ineos PEDL licence extended in 2019 for the second time
On 1 July 2019 the Scottish Government renewed an onshore petroleum exploration and development licence PEDL 162, which is 80 per cent owned by Ineos and permits fracking and other underground gas extraction technologies. The licence covers 400sq km to the south and west of Falkirk, and was extended for another year.
According to the Ferret:
- PEDL 162 was originally granted by the Westminster government to a firm called Reach Coal Seam Gas in 2008. Ineos bought four-fifths of the licence in 2014, and responsibility for licensing was devolved to Holyrood in February 2018. [2]
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Notes
- ↑ https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=11524c56-530e-474a-ab6f-46751fb92c29 Landmark legal challenge as mining companies seek to overturn Scottish fracking ban], Leigh Day, 30 April 2018
- ↑ Rob Edwards, Scottish Government move to renew Ineos fracking licence ‘disappointing’, The Ferret, 1 July 2019, accessed same day
