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UK go-ahead for North Sea oil and gas field angers environmental groups

Campaigners including Greta Thunberg had called for halt to Rosebank project involving Oslo-listed Equinor

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Britain has given the go-ahead to develop the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield off the Shetland Islands, sparking outrage from environmental campaigners.

The UK oil and gas regulator’s decision to grant Oslo-listed Equinor and the British firm Ithaca Energy permission to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea was condemned by Green party MP Caroline Lucas as “the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime”.

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