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Judge Blocks Major North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Climate Change

by Will Jones
30 January 2025 1:00 PM

A judge has blocked Britain’s two biggest offshore oil and gas developments from producing any fossil fuels by quashing their production permits over climate change concerns. The Telegraph has more.

The judge, Lord Ericht, banned production at the Jackdaw gas and Rosebank oil projects in the North Sea, operated by Shell and Equinor respectively, after ruling that “the private interest of members of the public in climate change outweigh the private interest of the developers”.

The decision in the Scottish Court of Session marks a victory for environmental groups Greenpeace UK and Uplift, which are campaigning against any further development of North Sea oil and gas.

However, it is a major blow for Shell, whose Jackdaw gas field was set to produce 6-7% of the UK’s gas needs, and Equinor, whose Rosebank project would generate nearly £7 billion of investment and hundreds of millions of pounds in taxes.

The judicial review into Jackdaw and Rosebank followed a Supreme Court ruling in a separate case brought by the activist Sarah Finch, who said that the emissions generated by burning fossil fuels should always be considered when approving new drilling sites.

Equinor and Shell have both vowed to continue development work on the two projects, while also submitting applications for new permits that take account of future emissions by their customers.

However these would ultimately have to be approved by Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, who has made clear his opposition to new oil and gas projects.

The last Government issued permits for Jackdaw and Rosebank without considering future emissions.

Shell and Equinor both conceded these permits are unlawful in light of the Supreme Court decision, but argued that having started work in good faith and having spent £800 million on Jackdaw and £2 billion on Rosebank, they should be allowed to continue.

Judge Ericht’s ruling gives them part of what they wanted. It means they can carry on developing the two projects. However, they are banned from producing any oil or gas unless the Government approves a new application.

Separately, Mr Miliband has held a consultation on the impact of the Finch ruling and plans to issue new guidance for oil and gas firms seeking new permits to “deliver economic growth, and meet the Government’s climate obligations”.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Climate AlarmismEd MilibandFossil fuelsGasJudgesNet ZeroNorth SeaOilScotland

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Aren’t they just brushing up a typical re-organisation and relocation to save cash, and presenting it as an opportunity to others? “offered the chance to move” often results in resignations, followed by recruiting new workers on lower wages somewhere else.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

Not sure about that – lower wages in London? Think you’ll find wages in East Anglia are pretty low. In my admittedly limited experience, these high up corporate people are really keen on destroying our culture and civilisation, goodness knows why as it’s that culture and civilisation that has feathered their very comfortable nests.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

“pandering to political correctness”

Nope, it’s part of the (self) destruction of European (White) civilisation. Just another cockup.

Diversity = more brown people (above all more blacks)

Inclusion = exclude white people

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Correct tof. If you read the article I have referenced from Technocracy News you will see how BT is simply playing a small part in the Genocidal plan. All quite deliberate.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

I have always made clear here on DS why I believe we are facing Genocide on a worldwide scale. Well this brilliant article sets it all out and the parallels with the Nazis are undeniable. The starting points: the twin evils of propoganda and censorship.

Everything happening today is designed to wipe at least six billion of us off the planet: starvation, ending fossil fuels, immigration and of course vaccination. And the bloody sheeple are walking straight in to it.

https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-sustainable-is-the-new-code-word-for-genocide/

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

But sustainable genocide, so A-OK…

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“Martlesham is 95.8% white, according to latest figures – in contrast, Birmingham is 48.7% white.”

racism then?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes and deliberately so.

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allofusarefat
allofusarefat
1 year ago

Nothing to do with steadily doing everything possible (short of rounding us up at gunpoint, and that may well happen in my lifetime) to force rural populations out of the countryside and into their digital gulags, sorry, smart cities? They quite clearly hate (and fear) everything about rural existence – the scary livestock, the regular need to use cars, those open spaces which could be filled with solar panels, the chickens which are just reservoirs of avian flu, all those gas boilers or oil fired heating systems, all that nature stuff just crying out to be rewilded- and most of all, those awkward country dwellers waving their pitchforks, demanding to use cash, refusing to live via their smartphones, and acting as a constant reminder of how people lived for centuries before Year Zero – “real primitives” as Rod ‘Rory’ Stewart thoughtfully referred to his former constituents in Cumbria. Vallance April 2023 is quite clear that greater urbanisation leads to greater institutional trust and compliance with expert opinion/advice. “I thought it would last beyond my time..”

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  allofusarefat

Check out the Technocracy News article I have referenced which will explain the emptying of the countryside more fully.

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allofusarefat
allofusarefat
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Very interesting read, thank you. Astonishing that so many policies pass the “does this contribute to depopulation?” litmus test.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  allofusarefat

“Astonishing that so many policies pass the “does this contribute to depopulation?” litmus test.”

Indeed.

Once you accept that the ultimate goal of all that is happening today is depopulation then all of a sudden the blinkers come off.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Don’t talk to me about the abysmal company that is BT. I won’t bore yous with my horrendous experiences but what I will say is that whenever I rang to speak with somebody there was always maximum diversity on the end of the line because I felt like I was ringing India. Actually I think I was.
Speaking of the dreaded ”D” word, is the NHS deliberately going out of its way to be more diverse or is it just that they can’t get enough home-grown front line staff so they’re having to recruit from abroad? They have always had an issue with this in nursing, to be fair, they just didn’t have any of these made up, daft ‘Diversity officer’ positions when I worked for them. Anyway, this latest news doesn’t surprise me;

”Hundreds of Nigerian midwives working for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have been suspected of gaining their medical qualifications by fraudulently having others take their exams for them in their home country, and dozens remain under investigation.
In a press release published on Wednesday, the U.K.’s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) explained it had received reports back in May this year of “unusual data” relating to computer-based tests at the Yunnik Technologies Test Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.
It added that, following an investigation, it now believes “there is evidence of widespread fraud at the Yunnik site.”

Foreign nurses who wish to join the NMC register and work in healthcare in Britain are required to undergo several assessments to prove their competency, one of which includes a computer-based test (CBT).
The healthcare regulator initially raised doubts over the legitimacy of test results pertaining to 515 Nigerian nurses and midwives currently practicing in the U.K. and deemed their results invalid.”

https://rmx.news/uk/hundreds-of-nigerian-nurses-and-midwives-investigated-by-uk-regulator-on-suspicion-of-fraudulently-passing-medical-exams/

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

No, not the Nigerians. Fiddling? Whatever next?

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

What is it with female CEOs and diversity.

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago

Isn’t part of Agenda 21/30 about forcing people out of rural areas into smart cities where they can be bagged, tagged, sheep dip vaccinated and easily spied on? They claim these things are ‘conspiracy theories’ and do them anyway!

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago

Woke HATES the countryside

Why? Simple – because we are resolutely monocultural. And anyone with a brain knows that culture is my definition “mono” as it pertains to a specific group of people. Multi-culti on the other hand, no fact means NO common culture. Ergo, no culture.

I abandoned BT way back when they screwed me; our landline (yup that long ago) crapped out, the same day as my Mum had a severe stroke up in Cheshire, 150 miles away. It wouldn’t work. BT said it was the phone, even when I told them when plugged in in a neighbour’s home. 6 weeks later, they admitted it was caused by a flooded junction box. In the meantime, deep winter, I had to go to a local telephone box to call the hospital.

They offered me FIVE pounds comp. I told them where they could stuff it, and as soon as we could, went elsewhere. I’d rather go with out any comms that use that shower of useless shysters.

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