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September 28, 2023

Environmentalists Slam U.K. Approval of Rosebank Oil Project in North Sea
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In the U.K., climate activists have slammed the government after it gave
the green light to develop its largest untapped oilfield in the North
Sea, just off the northwest coast of the Shetland Islands. The Rosebank
project will be operated by Norwegian company Equinor and British firm
Ithaca Energy. This is climate lawyer and director of the group Uplift,
Tessa Khan.

Tessa Khan: "If we're going to stay within a safe climate, which is that
internationally agreed goal of 1.5 degrees of temperature rise, there is
no room for new oil and gas fields. Existing oil and gas reserves and
fossil fuel infrastructure are enough to take us past that critical
threshold, so we simply can't afford to add more oil and gas to that
existing pile."



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