Along With Jackdaw And Rosebank, UK Court Rules 13 Other North Sea O&G Licenses Illegally Let
Thirteen more oil and gas licences could be cancelled as ministers decide new guidance for fossil fuel extraction after a landmark court case, the Guardian has learned. The admission that many more licences may ultimately be unlawful comes on the back of cabinet tensions over the future of two major oil and gas fields – Rosebank and Jackdaw – whose licences were last month found to have been unlawfully granted.
A judge ruled their applications did not take into account the emissions that arise from burning the oil and gas extracted from the projects. Sources close to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, suggested she was keen to find ways through new guidance to allow the licences to proceed.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who has previously described drilling at Rosebank as “climate vandalism”, is in the midst of a consultation about how new oil and gas projects should account for these emissions. The result of that consultation will ultimately decide whether such projects are allowed to take place.
It can now be revealed there are more oil and gas projects whose futures hang in the balance. In an exchange with the Green MP Carla Denyer, the energy minister Michael Shanks was forced to admit that 13 oil and gas fields currently at consent phase are subject to the recent court ruling.
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