Rosebank: MPs and peers urge Grant Shapps to block new oil field - BBC News

Grant Shapps is being urged in the "strongest possible terms" to block drilling at #Rosebank - the #UK's largest undeveloped #OilField. Wet
Fifty MPs and peers, from all major parties, have written to the #energy secretary to demand a rethink.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66396048

#BBCNews - #Rosebank : UK MPs and peers urge Grant Shapps to block new #oil field
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66396048
#Climate #ClimateChange

Petition: Stop all new oil and gas developments
We want the #Government to stop all new #oil and #gas developments, including the planned #Rosebank Field development.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640606

By announcing hundreds of new oil and gas licences, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has become a “dangerous radical” pursuing “moral and economic madness”.

“The truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels,” Guterres said in 2022, reacting to a searing report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
#climatechange #rosebank

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/new-oil-gas-licences-rishi-sunak-un-climate-crisis

Tory #Cakeism did not die with the political demise of Boris Johnson.

Sasha's 'have cake eat cake' legacy lives on courtesy of Riski Sunak, our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister.

How else explain how Tories proudly claim new #Oil from #Rosebank will BOTH lower domestic prices by home consumption AND ease UK's Balance of Payments deficit by export sales!

#C4News #LBC #Newsnight
#ClimateEmergency
#Nastiz #GeneralElectionNOW!

'Approving the #Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Atlantic would be a “death sentence”, #climate activists have said.'

UK 'regulators are considering granting the Norwegian company Equinor permission to begin exploiting one of the largest reserves of #fossil #fuels in the region. It would see up to 500 million barrels of oil pulled out over its lifetime with many scientists and campaigners voicing their opposition to the project'

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greta-thunberg-uk-oil-field-b2384723.html
#ClimateChange #GretaThunberg

#Rosebank, the largest untapped oil field in the UK is off the coast of Shetland. Its approval by regulators is expected soon and production could begin as early as 2026.

As usual, the regulators will sell out their grandkids' futures for a bucket of money. Money that can never buy back the time lost fighting emissions.

90 percent or more of 'ordinary' people would do the same. Nobody wants to embrace the reduction in economic activity we need because 'growth' is a religious imperative

#Rosebank, the UK’s 🇬🇧 largest undeveloped #oil & #gas field, is highly unlikely to be approved in time for parliamentary recess, amid growing concerns from regulators over electrification & #NetZero compatibility across the industry https://www.cityam.com/rosebank-faces-fresh-delay-amid-regulator-concerns-over-industry-net-zero-goals/

"Dozens of banks urged not to finance Rosebank oil and gas field"

#Banks #Money #Oil #Gas #Rosebank #FossilFuels

https://www.edie.net/dozens-of-banks-urged-not-to-finance-rosebank-oil-and-gas-field/

Climate campaigners have threatened the UK 🇬🇧 Govt with legal action over approving #Rosebank - a huge, controversial North Sea #oil🛢️ field. The UK Govts advisers, @theCCCuk stated expansion of #FossilFuel production is not in line with #NetZero goals https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23626650.uk-government-threatened-legal-action-unlawful-oil-plans/

Campaigners vow to step up action against new North Sea oilfield🛢️

Tessa khan🗣️ "Grant Shapps was told by his own climate advisers that approving #Rosebank is incompatible with maintaining a safe climate. It’s that simple." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/campaigners-vow-to-step-up-action-against-new-north-sea-oilfield

Apparently the #LabourParty will allow #Rosebank to continue?!?

WTAF? Wrong answer, Keir Starmer

#StopRosebank

https://oceanrebellion.earth/rosebank-the-rishi-sunak-oily-horror-show/

New #windfarm could be used to power #NorthSeaOilfield

Electricity generated on #Shetland could be used to fuel the proposed #Rosebank field, instead of homes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/24/new-windfarm-could-be-used-to-power-north-sea-oilfield #ToryPoliciesInAction #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis

RT @CarolineLucas
I will *not* be attending oil giant Equinor's "breakfast reception" in Parliament - a naked attempt at lobbying for #Rosebank, the biggest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea. MPs mustn't fall into bed with these climate criminals - tweet your MP & urge them not to attend 👇 https://twitter.com/MP_FossilFree/status/1671419360143876096

@jackLondon

In the details:
"the party insisted it would honour any licences in existence at the time of the next election, which must be held by January 2025. That is likely to include the controversial new Rosebank development west of Shetland."

The #Rosebank field will open massive amounts of oil extraction.

We must say no to any more drilling, no more #FossilFuels

#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis

#Labour have really lost their way

#Starmer has given assurances to Norwegian state gas & oil giant, Equinor, that Labour will not oppose the massive #Rosebank oil field in the North Sea

Not only do Labour deny us #democracy in the UK, as Starmer refuses to allow a vote on #PR but they are also screwing the planet in the face of the #ClimateEmergency

Happy #SocialistSunday

https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/stop-new-fields?source=GA&subsource=GOFRNAOAGA034J&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1rqkBhCTARIsAAHz7K0XIUKogffmqgAu_hPoKmHe2hbvaRffZQ0XMJQTC8KtqaPGXYi9U1oaAs5eEALw_wcB

Tory former net zero tsar joins many others in calling for a halt to #rosebank North Sea #oil project https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/25/tory-former-net-zero-tsar-chris-skidmore-calls-for-halt-to-rosebank-north-sea-oil-project. Rosebank would defy the #IEA and many other sensible voices that have called for no new oil & gas exploration because of its unacceptable consequences for #ClimateChange as well as UK’s reputation

I’m a #Tory MP, but I can’t let ministers trash our net zero pledge with the #Rosebank oilfield | Chris Skidmore https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/25/tory-mp-net-zero-rosebank-oilfield

As #Opec (& #SaudiArabia specifically) reduce capacity to push up the #oil price, #RishiSunak will likely point to his controversial go-ahead for #Rosebank oil field (off Shetland) as a future insurance against hight prices, in the service of UK #energysecurity...

That high oil prices might make the case for #greenenergy even stronger or that #renewables can come on stream quicker than new oil fields seems to have passed him by;

I wonder why?

In the pocket of the #fossilfuels lobby?

Rosebank new oil and gas field in the North Sea would be enough to exceed the UK’s carbon budgets from its operations alone, analysis has shown, as the government considers fossil fuel expansion despite the legally binding commitment to net zero.

Campaign group Uplift has shown that the likely emissions just from producing oil from the field would be enough to exceed the share of the UK’s carbon budgets for oil and gas production, from 2028 onwards.

#Rosebank #Oil #Gas

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/01/new-oilfield-in-the-north-sea-would-blow-the-uks-carbon-budget?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other