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CAMPAIGNERS in Yorkshire are celebrating a victory after councillors rejected an oil company’s plans to launch drilling operations.
Tory-controlled East Riding of Yorkshire Council threw out an application to drill six wells and launch 20 years of oil exploitation in rural countryside near Holderness in the east of the county.
But five out of the 12 councillors voted for the plan.
The Fossil Free East Yorkshire campaign group said the application ignored the “blindingly obvious issue of climate change.”
A statement from the group said: “Although shocked that so many councillors still supported this plan for oil drilling, even as the climate breaks down around us, we are delighted and relieved that a majority listened to the overwhelming opposition from just about everybody, and refused it.
“Local communities campaigned hard for seven years to prevent Holderness being industrialised into an oil field, and to save future generations from climate chaos, and at last they are being listened to.”
