Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields decisions quashed: comment

"Rosebank is mainly an oil field for export and, as the oil and gas extracted from North Sea fields is owned by the companies that get it out of the ground, these will be sold to the highest bidder on international markets and may never end up being used in the UK.

"These fields make single digit percentage difference to UK output, whereas the ramp up of home insulation as well as heat pumps and EVs running on British renewables could dramatically and permanently cut the UK’s dependence on the volatile price of oil and gas which will increasingly need to be imported given the decades long ongoing decline in North Sea output. Heat pumps equal energy security.
 
"Economic growth and the future of the North Sea lies in our flourishing clean industries, which are seen as the top opportunity for growth by the British public (51%), greater than AI (42%), and vastly outpacing the dying oil and gas industry, which less than 1 in 10 see as a economic opportunity [2]."