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BBC<\/p>\nKevin KeaneEnvironment, energy and rural affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland<\/p>\n
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Shell said the ruling would allow work to progress on the project<\/p>\n
The oil company Shell has submitted a fresh environmental impact assessment for the controversial Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.<\/p>\n
The company was forced to produce a new assessment after a successful legal challenge by the environmental group Greenpeace.<\/p>\n
The courts ruled that emissions from burning the oil and gas must be considered by ministers when deciding whether to give projects the go-ahead.<\/p>\n
It means the consent previously granted was ruled unlawful.<\/p>\n
The Jackdaw field \u2013 150 miles east of Aberdeen \u2013 will be capable of producing 6% of the UK’s gas needs.<\/p>\n
Construction is well underway for the production platform for the gas field.<\/p>\n
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However Shell has been told it cannot begin production until a fresh decision has been made by the UK government.<\/p>\n
A Shell spokesman said: “We have submitted our response to the regulator’s request for further information on Jackdaw, which includes the assessment of scope three emissions associated with the project. <\/p>\n
“We remain committed to delivering Jackdaw, which is a nationally important project that is almost complete and would provide enough fuel to heat 1.4 million homes.<\/p>\n
“North Sea projects like Jackdaw deliver energy to UK homes and industry with significantly less emissions than importing more gas from overseas.”<\/p>\n
‘Climate damage’<\/p>\n
Details of the new environmental impact assessment have not been released but are expected to be published by the UK government.<\/p>\n
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said it could not comment on individual projects.<\/p>\n
Greenpeace says the public has a right to see the information being submitted to the regulator and that the government has a duty to take it into account.<\/p>\n
The charity’s senior climate campaigner Philip Evans added: “It’s not surprising to see Shell doggedly pursue a new gas project that will boost their multi-billion-pound profits while fuelling more extreme weather and bringing no relief to bill payers. <\/p>\n
“But we have won a decisive court ruling that forced Shell and other oil giants to come clean over the full scale of climate damage caused by new drilling projects in the North Sea.”<\/p>\n
The decision over whether to give the go ahead to the Jackdaw field, alongside Equinor’s Rosebank oil development, will be the first to be taken since the court ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin KeaneEnvironment, energy and rural affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland BBC Shell said the ruling would allow work to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-394909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141183132977085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}