“Flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful” – reactions to assessment of Biscathorpe climate impact

“Flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful” – reactions to assessment of Biscathorpe climate impact

The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”. River Bain near Egdon’s proposed oil production site at Biscathorpe in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Photo: SOS Biscathorpe Egdon Resources was required by a landmark legal judgement to review the greenhouse gas [ghg] emissions likely to result from burning oil that it wants to extract from its Biscathorpe site i…