> in a £1.1 billion deal. In doing so, it inherited a controlling 70 per cent stake in Cambo, an oil field off the west coast of Shetland which was the target of fierce opposition from environmental groups in 2021.
> Ithaca is the UK arm of Delek Group, one of Israel’s biggest energy companies. Delek was among 112 companies named in a 2020 UN list of businesses whose activities in the West Bank “raised particular human rights concerns”.
> Human rights campaigners alleged that by doing business in Israeli settlements — which are considered illegal under international law — Delek is “contributing to systemic violations against Palestinians”. Delek did not reply to our requests for a comment.
While, according to the BBC’s article, Ithaca CEO Alan Bruce thinks
> “It feels like we’re in a better position to consider all of the projects a bit more holistically”
> The savage heatwave that has scorched India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a harbinger of the region’s future, scientists have said in a new study.
> Parts of the region have long suffered gruelling summers, but this year temperatures even in parts of northern India soared to 49C.
> The intense heatwave and low rainfall drove deaths, power blackouts as energy demand soared and wheat losses in India, which shut down exports just as the global supply was already squeezed by Russia’s war in Ukraine . . .
> India has sweltered through the hottest March in the country since records began in 1901 and April was the warmest on record in Pakistan and parts of India.
> At least 90 people have died in the two nations, with many more expected to have gone unrecorded.
Here you go Mr Bruce, in case you weren’t clear:
#holistic
*adjective*, PHILOSOPHY:
**characterized by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.**
Madness. Ignoring the climate issue it’s just not economically sensible to do it. That money could be spent on domestic solar and insulation or community wind turbines instead and have far more impact on energy prices
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Previous Cambo designates [Siccar Point](https://www.desmog.com/siccar-point-energy/) were recently [acquired by Ithaca Energy](https://theferret.scot/cambo-owner-blacklist-business-west-bank/):
> in a £1.1 billion deal. In doing so, it inherited a controlling 70 per cent stake in Cambo, an oil field off the west coast of Shetland which was the target of fierce opposition from environmental groups in 2021.
> Ithaca is the UK arm of Delek Group, one of Israel’s biggest energy companies. Delek was among 112 companies named in a 2020 UN list of businesses whose activities in the West Bank “raised particular human rights concerns”.
> Human rights campaigners alleged that by doing business in Israeli settlements — which are considered illegal under international law — Delek is “contributing to systemic violations against Palestinians”. Delek did not reply to our requests for a comment.
While, according to the BBC’s article, Ithaca CEO Alan Bruce thinks
> “It feels like we’re in a better position to consider all of the projects a bit more holistically”
he might like to “holistically” consider the [view of scientists](https://news.sky.com/story/a-sign-of-things-to-come-india-and-pakistan-heatwave-made-30-times-more-likely-by-climate-change-study-finds-12620249), who find the deadly heatwave currently devastating India and Pakistan “30 times more likely because of the greenhouse gases released by human activity”:
> The savage heatwave that has scorched India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a harbinger of the region’s future, scientists have said in a new study.
> Parts of the region have long suffered gruelling summers, but this year temperatures even in parts of northern India soared to 49C.
> The intense heatwave and low rainfall drove deaths, power blackouts as energy demand soared and wheat losses in India, which shut down exports just as the global supply was already squeezed by Russia’s war in Ukraine . . .
> India has sweltered through the hottest March in the country since records began in 1901 and April was the warmest on record in Pakistan and parts of India.
> At least 90 people have died in the two nations, with many more expected to have gone unrecorded.
Here you go Mr Bruce, in case you weren’t clear:
#holistic
*adjective*, PHILOSOPHY:
**characterized by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.**
Madness. Ignoring the climate issue it’s just not economically sensible to do it. That money could be spent on domestic solar and insulation or community wind turbines instead and have far more impact on energy prices