Environmental campaigners say government ‘has a duty to speak out’ against new oilfield development
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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners say the Scottish government has a duty to speak out against the development of a new oilfield near Shetland.
Oxfam Scotland raised serious concerns today about the ecological impact of the proposed Cambo development and the Scottish energy sector’s continued reliance on fossil fuels.
Its alarm came as an Oxfam International report revealed that using land alone to achieve global net-zero emissions by 2050 would require at least 1.6 billion hectares of new forests — a land mass equivalent to more than all of the farmland on Earth.
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