‘If we keep drilling for fossil fuels, billions will die’
The fight against the newly approved Rosebank oil field ‘is not over’, environmental campaigners warn

CLIMATE campaigners have warned “the fight’s not over” after the Rosebank oil field, estimated to contain 545 million barrels, was given the green light.
The North Sea Transition Authority’s licence approval came just days after Rishi Sunak U-turned on a raft of government measures aimed at achieving net-zero by 2050, a target the PM still claims will be met.
Plans to exploit the field had been shelved at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow two years ago.
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