Campaigners from the Markwells Wood Watch at one of their meetings in 2017, Picture by Emily Mott
Published in the Portsmouth News on 22nd March 2018
CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating a long-awaited victory after oil drillers were told to pack up and leave a regional beauty spot.
Markwells Wood Watch has spent the past two years locking horns with UK Oil and Gas (Ukog) over its plans to extract fuel from four wells at the South Downs National Park.
The firm had earmarked an acidisation site at Forestside near Rowlands Castle, but has now been told to remove its equipment and restore the area by the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA).
Emily Mott, of Markwells Wood Watch, said: ‘Markwells Wood is an ancient woodland in the middle of a national park.
‘We are absolutely thrilled that Ukog has been told to withdraw all their equipment and restore the site.’
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