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Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan Publication Version
Representation ID: 283
Received: 10/10/2019
Respondent: IGas Energy
IGas supports the commitment to reducing the impact from development on climate change and the fact that it is the development that must reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move towards a low carbon economy (SP3(a)). IGas also supports the supporting justification that indigenous energy minerals have potential benefits in environmental and climate change terms. IGas is of the view that onshore oil and gas development is compatible with the policy through the development of an adequate supply of domestic minerals under a regulatory environment superior to that of countries from which the UK imports its minerals. A domestic oil and gas supply offers significant carbon savings over fuels, which otherwise would be imported from overseas, possibly without regulatory regimes as strong as those in the UK, generating much needed local jobs in fields such as engineering and contributing to the transition towards a low carbon economy.
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