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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton

Plans for gas drilling in Surrey Hills to face judicial review

Protesters dressed all in red gesture towards a banner reading 'Don't drill Dunsfold'
Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London demonstrate against the plans to allow exploratory drilling near Dunsfold, Surrey. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

Plans to drill for gas in the Surrey Hills will be put under judicial review and could be stopped, after local campaigners took the government to the high court.

Ministers previously gave the green light to three years of exploratory drilling at a site near Dunsfold on the edge of the Surrey Hills area of outstanding natural beauty.

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