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Shanks also said current North Sea oil and gas projects would be allowed to run to completion but reiterated that no further licenses for drilling would be granted.

But the rapid urbanisation has also exposed Mogadishu to infrastructure challenges - it lacks a proper sewage system and unregulated borehole drilling risks depleting groundwater reserves.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for an end to the windfall tax on oil and gas companies and said new licenses should be issued for drilling in the North Sea.

Circuit Court of Appeals cited its potential to spur more drilling for oil in Utah and more pollution along the Gulf Coast.

Over the last decade, large farming companies have expanded in Arizona, planting hay and other water-intensive crops and drilling deep wells in desert areas where there are no regulations limiting groundwater pumping.