News Headline

UK's coalition government failing to protect Arctic from drilling: MPs

Source
domain-b.com

Publication Date
2013-07-29

The coalition government has failed to protect the Arctic from oil and gas drilling, by letting new projects come up with scant scrutiny of their potential risks, the UK's parliamentary green watchdog Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has warned. The MPs have called for a moratorium on Arctic drilling, which has been rejected by the coalition. They have also called on David Cameron to revisit the Arctic, where early in his leadership of the opposition he famously was photographed with huskie dogs.

Content
http://www.domain-b.com/environment/20130727_drilling.html