Financial Times Article Rating

Fossil fuel projects face higher bar in UK as legal challenges mount

Sep 30, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    2% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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29% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : There is also a push for planning officials to take into greater account climate goals when deciding whether to approve other projects beyond fossil fuels.
50% : The so-called Finch ruling, named after the activist and writer Sarah Finch who helped bring the case, means that planning officials considering allowing big developers to drill for fossil fuels need to factor in the emissions spewed out when the product is used by consumers.
45% : It raises further questions for the UK's oil and gas industry in the North Sea as the Labour government tries to ultimately wind down fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy, and position Britain as a global leader in tackling climate change.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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