LONDON: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham must decide in the coming weeks whether to authorize two North Sea drilling projects, an issue which has divided his own Labour Party.
The decision after a consultation period ended Monday pits Labour’s climate ambitions against pressure to boost domestic energy supplies and ease surging household bills.
- What are the projects? -
Jackdaw is a gas field situated east of the port of Aberdeen, and Rosebank, a field that mainly contains oil, lies west of the Shetland Islands.
Drilling at both sites was approved by the previous Conservative government in 2022 and 2023, before two environmental groups launched a legal challenge to block them.
