The proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea have been ruled unlawful by the Court of Session in Edinburgh. The Conservative government granted permission for drilling in ...

Globally, the emissions from burning the fossil fuels in oil and gas fields and coalmines that are already operating or under development far exceed that budget. In this context, Rosebank’s combustion ...

The oil and gas industry has welcomed the consent process being restarted by the UK government.

Rosebank and Jackdaw: Legal challenge to oil and gas field approvals gets under way Greenpeace and Uplift have jointly raised a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

This guidance will determine whether production can go ahead in the controversial Scottish fields, Rosebank and Jackdaw.

The Government has said it will not challenge judicial reviews brought against developments for the Rosebank and Jackdaw offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea, in order to “save the ...

The controversial Rosebank oil field could be killed off in Scotland’s Court of Session later this year with legal challenges officially given the go-ahead.

The Court of Session in Edinburgh has agreed to hear arguments brought by climate campaigners seeking to block the Rosebank oil and gas development in the North Sea on climate grounds.

The Rosebank oil field is west of Shetland and holds fossil fuels equivalent to about 500 million barrels of oil, according to Uplift. The organisation says 90% of its reserves are oil and the ...

Shell’s Jackdaw gas field and Equinor’s Rosebank oil field have been ruled unlawful because they did not account for the significant emissions that would be caused by burning the fields’ oil and gas.

Oil and gas workers and the communities in which they are based already face a volatile future . New fields like Rosebank would create some additional jobs in this declining industry.