After years of trying to dig for oil in Surrey, the company behind the drilling project that was turned down in a landmark(里程碑式的) supreme court ruling has sold off(廉价出售) the site for a fraction of(一小部分) the money it spent on it, and rebranded(重塑品牌) as a clean energy company.
在萨里郡尝试开采石油多年后，那个钻探项目被最高法院里程碑式裁决否决的公司，以当初投入资金的一小部分卖掉了场地，并更名为一家清洁能源公司。
Meanwhile, the new owners, who picked up(买下) the site for £1m, are applying, once again, for permission to dig.
与此同时，以100万英镑买下场地的新业主，正再次申请开采许可。
UK Oil and Gas (UKOG) spent more than a decade(十年) trying to develop(试图开发) Horse Hill oilfields, where they said they had found 100bn barrels of oil. But in 2024 the supreme court, in a decision which has since become known as the Finch Ruling, decreed that “a planning authority should have considered the indirect downstream greenhouse gas emissions of an oil and gas project as part of its environmental impact assessment” and overturned a council decision to let expansion go ahead.(但2024年，最高法院在一项后来被称为“芬奇裁决”的判决中裁定，规划部门本应将油气项目的间接下游温室气体排放纳入环境影响评估，并推翻了地方议会允许扩建的决定。)
英国石油天然气公司（UKOG）花了十多年时间试图开发Horse Hill油田，他们声称在那里发现了1000亿桶石油。但2024年，最高法院在一项后来被称为“芬奇裁决”的判决中裁定，“规划部门本应将油气项目的间接下游温室气体排放纳入环境影响评估”，并推翻了地方议会允许扩建的决定。