{"id":379656,"date":"2026-09-17T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-more-north-sea-oil-drilling-still-not-been-approved\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:00:28","slug":"why-has-more-north-sea-oil-drilling-still-not-been-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-more-north-sea-oil-drilling-still-not-been-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has more North Sea oil drilling still not been approved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/M0RdOtWXh98\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why has more North Sea oil drilling still not been approved?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0RdOtWXh98\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lewis Denison asks Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh why she has still not approved more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, after indications from Prime Minister Andy Burnham that he would allow it as part of plans to bring down energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Lewis Denison asks Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh why she has still not approved more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, after indications from Prime Minister Andy Burnham that he would allow it as part of plans to bring down energy bills. \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-379656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why has more North Sea oil drilling still not been approved? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why has more North Sea oil drilling still not been approved? for free, here on News ISC. 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