To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the compatibility of the Pilot fossil fuel development proposed by Orcadian Energy with the UK’s target to achieve net zero by 2050.
Answered on
10 November 2021
All previously licensed fields are accounted for in terms of projected production and estimated emissions and the Government is confident that they can be developed, even as the UK seeks to achieve its commitment to net zero by 2050.