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nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Oil exploration opponents yesterday sought the Supreme Court's approval to add the Town Planning Committee as a "fourth respondent" in their challenge to Bahamas Petroleum Company's (BPC) drilling. Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, in moving to amend their initial Judicial Review action, argued that the planning regulator should be added because it has failed to order BPC to cease it activities in waters 90 miles west of Andros given the seeming absence of site plan approval. Joe Darville, a director of both environmental groups, alleged...

nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Environmental activists yesterday accused the Government of "jumping the gun" after it filed legal papers opposing their bid to halt oil exploration in Bahamian waters. Rashema Ingraham, executive director of Waterkeeper Bahamas, told Tribune Business "it goes against normal legal process for Judicial Reviews" for the Attorney General's Office to file a "notice of objection" prior to Justice Hanna-Weekes determining whether the activists' case should proceed. The Supreme Court is due to make that decision at 11am today, but in its December 22, 2020, "notice", the At...