Climate campaigners look to legal action over approval of Rosebank oilfield
Today’s approval to extract oil from the UK’s largest undeveloped field could be heading for the courts.
Today’s approval to extract oil from the UK’s largest undeveloped field could be heading for the courts.
Labour’s policy to end oil and gas exploration in the North Sea will also apply onshore, the party has said.
More than 140 environmental and social justice organisations have warned that opening new oil and gas fields would lock the UK into higher energy bills for longer.
Campaigners have been granted permission to challenge last year’s decision by the government to issue new oil and gas licences.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised today for his government’s plans to expand North Sea oil and gas extraction, while promoting renewable energy at the COP27 climate talks.