UK Oil and Gas’s find may turn out to be a large one. But the environmental and political opposition to drilling in leafy Sussex will be strong
Dallas has come to the Sussex weald. Oil workers will soon be crawling all over the Horse Hill field close to Gatwick airport after UK Oil and Gas investments announced that there were up to 100bn barrels of crude waiting to be exploited. Or perhaps not. This is oil that should, and probably will, be left in the ground.
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