The regulation you have by no means heard of that stops Britain constructing – and it isn’t even British

Downing Street desires to cease inexperienced activists from utilizing a little-known worldwide regulation to tie up main infrastructure tasks within the courts utilizing hundreds of thousands of kilos of taxpayer money, Sky News can reveal.

An obscure worldwide settlement often called the Aarhus Convention, named after Denmark’s second metropolis, is delaying among the greatest industrial tasks within the nation.

Campaigners who use it, nevertheless, say it’s a important software to carry ministers to their inexperienced targets.

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