AQW 7265/17-22

Mr Gerry Carroll
People Before Profit Alliance
West Belfast

Tabled Date: 21/09/2020
Answered On Date: 24/09/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she has received any explicit or implicit recommendation from her Department on whether or not to grant any of the two current Petroleum Licence Applications PLA1/16 and PLA2/16.

Answer:

I have not received any recommendation, either explicit or otherwise, from my Department on whether or not I should grant the two Petroleum Licence applications PLA1/16 and PLA2/16.

I can assure you that my officials are intent on using the responses to the consultations on the two petroleum licence applications, as well as the findings of the planned independent research into the impacts of petroleum licensing to develop an evidence base that will inform a recommendation to my Executive colleagues and I on future petroleum licensing policy for Northern Ireland which will underpin any final decisions on PLA1/16 and PLA2/16.