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This follows similar decisions in Europe and elsewhere. This ruling is pivotal for several ongoing cases in the UK on other oil sites like Rosebank.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;This ruling will put further pressure ahead of the election on those parties, particularly the Conservatives, that have been promoting further development of fossil fuels in the North Sea, against the advice of experts and contrary to the scientific evidence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>Response to a ruling by the UK Supreme Court ruling that Surrey council should have considered the climate impact of an oil drilling project.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":72460,"template":"","tags":[1869,4546,581,437,106],"news-category":[15],"topic_area":[4695,4696],"class_list":["post-72459","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-climate-change-litigation","tag-law","tag-litigation","tag-uk","tag-uk-policy","news-category-10-press-releases","topic_area-climate-change-laws-and-litigation","topic_area-uk-emissions-policy"],"acf":{"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"show_translations_widget":{"ref_value":"field_6203d588c41e8","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":false,"type":"repeater","post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["institute-responds-to-uk-supreme-court-ruling-on-surrey-oil-site"],"type":"relationship","post_type":""},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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