Around 100bn barrels of oil apparently lies beneath this field near Gatwick airport. But can it be extracted economically let alone sustainably? The Guardian went on site to find out
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There was one stetson visible on the Surrey-West Sussex border on Thursday, matched with a fetching purple Western shirt and sunglasses. But it was very much of the fancy dress variety, and modelled by a slightly embarrassed-looking tabloid reporter despatched by her editors to pose for some Dallas-style photographs.
“The scientific consensus on climate change has never been greater and we have been told that the only way we have a chance of averting catastrophe is by leaving large reserves of oil in the ground.”