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Campaigners have also welcomed the court ruling, which calls for the government to reconsider approval for the oil and gas development
Local climate campaigner Andrea Sanchez finds ‘no adults in the room’ at Equinor when she attended the Norwegian oil company’s AGM earlier in May. Here she argues that developing the Rosebank oil field has little to do with ‘transitioning to clean energy’.
Shetland News republishes this article from The Conversation website in which academics Gisa Weszkalnys and Gavin Bridge argue that calls to end new oil and gas licensing is in line with climate science yet the existing regulatory approval process locks the UK into hydrocarbon production for years to come
Its developers have made a $3.8 billion final investment decision to progress with phase one of Rosebank
Local Green councillor Alex Armitage offers his views on why he is taking a stand against the proposed Rosebank oil field to the west of Shetland
Following a visit to the isles earlier this year climate activist Tessa Khan offers her views on the need for a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels, and the role Shetland can play.
Meanwhile one of the partners behind Rosebank – and also Cambo – has been bought by Ithaca Energy