The High Court has granted Esso an interim injunction to prevent protesters disrupting construction work on a vast aviation fuel pipeline in the south of England.
The oil giant, which is owned by ExxonMobil, received development consent in October 2020 to replace 90km of pipe between Hampshire and the firm’s terminal storage facility near Heathrow Airport – a project it insists will help keep 100 tankers a day off the road.
