CLIMATE campaigners have gone to Scotland’s highest court to launch a legal challenge to plans for new oil and gas extraction in Scottish waters.

Greenpeace and Uplift took their battle against the exploitation of the Rosebank oil field north-west of Shetland and the Jackdaw oil field off Aberdeen to the Court of Session in Edinburgh today.

The groups condemned a lack of transparency in North Sea Transition Authority decisions to grant licences to oil giants Equinor and Ithaca for Rosebank and Shell for Jackdaw in the face of a climate emergency being declared by devolved parliaments and in town halls across the land.