Tag: UK Government

NOVANEWS By Joe Sandler Clarke, Maeve McClenaghan and Lawrence Carter British officials are using aid money to support oil drilling in a World Heritage Site in Africa, according to an Energydesk investigation. Government documents, obtained through freedom of information (FOI), reveal that the Foreign Office pledged thousands of pounds in aid to support drilling in Lake Malawi, where the UN warns that a spill could wreck the fragile ecosystem. UK oil company Surestream has a stake in two oil blocks overlapping the lake, while United Arab Emirates firm RAK Gas holds the rights to explore in the UN protected zone itself. UN environmental agency UNESCO warned in a previous statement that: "An accidental spill anywhere in the lake would pose a potentially severe risk to the integrity...