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Government urged to previously issued revoke oil and gas licenses as it faces legal action from campaigners over approval of dozens of North Sea drilling licenses last year
The government is facing calls to revoke a flurry of North Sea oil and gas drilling licences handed out during the final months of the previous Conservative administration, after a fresh legal challenge...
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