THE majority of Scots voters back the UK Government’s decision to grant a licence to the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea, a new poll has…
The majority of Scots support the UK Government's decision to grant a licence to the Rosebank oil field, according to a new pollIn September, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the field would be granted a licence, along with more than 100 other oil andhave insisted that they want to “max out” the oil and gas in the North Sea in order to help reach net zero, despite the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, warning in 2021: “If governments are serious about the...
Rosebank could produce 69,000 barrels of oil per day, about 8% of the UK’s projected daily output between 2026 and 2030, and could also produce 44 million cubic feet of gas every day, according to its owners, Ithaca Energy and Equinor., found that 42% of Scots would prefer to wind down North Sea oil and gas production, compared with 33% preferring to exploit all economically viable supplies.
Other campaigners hit out at the Tories' decision to hand a"multi-billion pound tax break" to the owners of Rosebank, "rather than help people in the UK suffering in fuel poverty".We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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