CONTROVERSIAL North Sea oil and gas plans “won’t take a penny off our bills” and instead increase “profits of a few,” campaigners warned as a public consultation opened into projects today.

Fossil fuel firm Adura claimed the Rosebank oil field and Jackdaw development would “deliver the greatest benefit for the UK.”

But campaigners and researchers with Uplift, which won the legal case against Rosebank in 2025, warned Brits not to fall for the plans which only serve to increase profits for energy firms.

Its executive director Tessa Khan said: “Rosebank won’t take a penny off our bills or meaningfully boost UK energy supplies — it’s overwhelmingly oil for export.

“But burning its oil would produce emissions equal to 70 per cent of the UK’s annual total, making it utterly incompatible with safe climate limits.

“Rosebank has nothing to do with the UK’s energy security and everything to do with increasing the profits of a few, already obscenely wealthy, oil companies.”

Members of the public were invited to respond to the public consultation opened by the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (Opred) today.

Pointing to the heatwaves which led to more than 2,700 excess deaths in May and June, Ms Khan said politicians cannot further increase our emissions with new fossil fuel projects.

She said: “The record-breaking heat across the UK and Europe has already claimed thousands of lives, further strained our schools, hospitals and transport networks, and put even more stress on our farmers.

“These impacts will get worse as long as we keep drilling for fossil fuels.”

Adura chief executive Neil McCulloch welcomed the consultation, claiming it could be “part of a nationally significant programme of reindustrialisation.”