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Letter: On the debate over new fossil fuel projects (2)

Published 22 September 2021

From John Ormiston, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, UK

The UK may not need a new coal mine or even an oil field, as Mark Peplow’s comment makes clear (4 September, p 17), but it may have no option. The , as amended in 2015, requires the UK to make the maximum profits from fossil fuel deposits in its territory. The .

Issue no. 3353 published 25 September 2021

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