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  • UK government put on notice: potential international law breach if controversial Rosebank oil field is approved

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    https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/uk-government-put-on-notice-potential-international-law-breach-if-controversial-rosebank-oil-field-is-approved/

    The UK government is set to make its final decision on the future of the controversial Rosebank oil field, situated off the coast of Shetland. The project was overturned by the Scottish courts last year on climate grounds and has long faced opposition in the UK.

    The argument against Rosebank, however, is not just environmental. The project could send over £200 million towards Israel’s Delek Group if reapproved. 

    Delek has been flagged by the UN for links to human rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory through its operations in the West Bank, and provides fuel to the Israeli military through its subsidiary, Delek Israel. Rosebank’s minority owner – Ithaca Energy – is majority owned by Delek Group.

    Since its initial approval, the field has faced mounting criticism for its links to Delek in both Norway and the UK, with campaigners, politicians and Scotland’s former First Minister Humza Yousaf, speaking out about the risks associated with North Sea profits flowing towards Delek.

    With a decision on Rosebank due imminently, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has put the UK government on urgent notice of a number of legal risks if Rosebank is given the green light, identifying potential breaches of the UK government’s obligations under international humanitarian law.

    The UK Government has been a given a deadline of 13 February to respond to SPSC with a timetable for a comprehensive assessment of the risks associated with a decision on Rosebank, including:

    • The risk of violations of Common Article 1 and Articles 49 and 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention
    • Exposure under section 1 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 and section 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001
    • The risk that profits generated by Ithaca/Delek constitute criminal property under Part 7 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the consequent need for safeguards, reporting and, if appropriate, restraint
    • The risk of failure to meet the obligation to prevent genocide under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention
    • The application of Articles 16 and 41 of the Articles on State Responsibility.

    Follow the latest, including calls to action, on Stop Rosebank here.

    https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/uk-government-put-on-notice-potential-international-law-breach-if-controversial-rosebank-oil-field-is-approved/

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  • Climate groups stage protest outside Equinor HQ

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/climate-groups-stage-protest-outside-equinor-hq

    Climate activists at a previous protest. Photo: Fossil Free London

    CLIMATE activists staged an “oil spill” protest outside an energy firm’s headquarters set to start extraction in Britain’s largest untapped oil field.

    Posting its yearly profits on Wednesday, Equinor announced billions of pounds in income in the last quarter of 2025, explained by its CEO Anders Opedal as a result of “new fields on stream” and “record-high production.”

    The government is set to publish its decision over allowing the new project in the Rosebank fields.

    Fossil Free London director Robin Wells said: “Equinor are getting filthy rich from filthy fossil fuels, whilst the UK public foots the bill. And it’s never been more of a rip-off.

    “As Equinor drives Rosebank forward, they’ve newly buddied up with Shell in a new North Sea venture to dodge £1.3 billion in tax.

    “The UK government must not back Big Oil’s Big Money and support climate denial. They must back people’s survival, and stop this carbon bomb. They must stop Rosebank.”

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/climate-groups-stage-protest-outside-equinor-hq

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    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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  • Greens call for year of climate action with rejection of Rosebank

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greens-call-year-climate-action-rejection-rosebank

    Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024

    THE Scottish Greens called today for a year of climate action, starting with the rejection of Rosebank oil field project.

    Net Zero spokesman Patrick Harvie urged both the Scottish and Westminster governments to reject the plans for further oil and gas extraction from the North Sea, instead committing to reaching their net zero targets.

    The Labour government has not ruled out production from the Rosebank oil field, and all new exploration, despite numerous warnings from experts that the cost to our climate would be catastrophic.

    Mr Harvie said: “We are trapped in a deepening climate crisis, and drilling for new oil and gas will do nothing but worsen the conditions and put unnecessary pressure on our climate already at breaking point.

    “There is no going back and starting again. There is no planet B for us to go and live on.

    “People cannot afford the rising costs of energy bills that are being made worse by maintaining a link between the cost of gas and electricity.”

    …

    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greens-call-year-climate-action-rejection-rosebank

    Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the U.K. Government building in Edinburgh, after the controversial Equinor Rosebank North Sea oil field was given the go-ahead Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)
    Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the U.K. Government building in Edinburgh, after the controversial Equinor Rosebank North Sea oil field was given the go-ahead Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)
    Scientists protest at UK Parliament 5 September 2023.
    Scientists protest at UK Parliament 5 September 2023.
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards

  • UK Labour Party shits on climate

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    The commitment was no new oil or gas extraction. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to abandon that today by announcing new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. There will be some BS explaining that it’s somehow not new when of course it is. This was expected from these shits (they abandon all their commitments) from the expansion of airports and possibly allowing the huge Rosebank proposed oil field.

    Ed Miliband is a useful idiot pretending that the Labour Party have a responsible climate policy which is shown to be untrue and they’re just climate wrecking shits like other right-wingers.

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    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.

  • BP raking in obscene profits at expense of people and planet

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    Fossil fuel giant BP is profiteering at the expense of people and planet, say the Scottish Greens. The comments from the party’s climate spokesperson, Patrick Harvie, come as BP has published its profits for Q3 2025.

    Earlier this year BP announced that it would cut its renewable energy investments and instead focus on increasing oil and gas production.

    Patrick said: 

    “It has been yet another year of climate chaos around the world, with wildfires and flooding taking a deadly toll. 

    “Yet times have rarely been better for the polluters and fossil fuel giants who are raking in eye-watering profits while our planet burns and households and families are hammered with escalating bills.

    “What makes BP’s profiteering particularly obscene is that they know the damage they are doing and are doubling down on it by rolling back on the few climate commitments that they had made.

    “Our energy market will never be fit for purpose as long as it is run by and for multibillion pound corporations like BP and those who are determined to exploit every last drop of oil at the expense of people and planet.”

    Patrick added: 

    “The UK government has a major decision on its hands when it comes to Rosebank. Will they keep the ban in place, or will they cave-in to pressure from the polluter lobby?

    “Scotland has a huge renewables potential, but we need our governments to step up, do the work and make the investment that is needed in workers and green jobs.”

    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
    Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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