Two environmental groups kicked off a legal challenge in Scotland on Tuesday to block the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea, with activists optimistic of success after other favourable court rulings.
Campaign groups Uplift and Greenpeace have brought judicial reviews at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, arguing that the government illegally granted operators permission to exploit the fields.
Lawyer Ruth Crawford, representing Greenpeace, said it was “agreed by all that decisions made on Jackdaw and Rosebank were unlawful because Scope 3/downstream greenhouse gas emissions were not assessed in environmental statements submitted by interested parties”.
Scope 3 emissions are essentially all carbon emissions indirectly generated by a business.
Crawford urged judge Andrew Stewart to ignore arguments from energy firms behind the schemes about the cost of pausing development.
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