The UK’s future “does not lie in more oil and gas”, an energy minister has told MPs, just days after a court ruled against ...

The judgement came after a case brought by environmental campaigners at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Court of Session has ruled that two major North Sea oil and gas fields were approved unlawfully, as their ...

Scotland’s supreme civil court has declared the approval of the UK’s North Sea Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields ...

The approval of the North Sea oil fields has been quashed while a revised environmental impact assessment is submitted.

The UK Labour government is set for a clash of ideologies between two key members of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet over whether to ...

The proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea have been ruled unlawful by the Court of Session in Edinburgh. The Conservative government granted permission for drilling in ...

Greenpeace and Uplift had claimed the impact of greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning extracted oil and gas from the ...

Rosebank contains about 300 million barrels of oil, most of which would be exported. The smaller amounts of gas from Jackdaw were destined for UK use, but were not expected to make a dent in ...

The highest court in Scotland ruled that government approvals for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields were unlawful.

Shell's Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea was originally approved by the previous UK Conservative government, and the industry regulator, in summer 2022. Permission for the Rosebank oil ...

The proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea have been ruled unlawful by the Court of Session in Edinburgh ...