North Sea drilling tests UK gov’t climate pledge
Campaigners from the action group Scientists on Survival protest against oil and gas drilling outside the Department for Energy Security in London. (AFP photo)
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 on Aug. 17 pits Labour's climate ambitions against pressure to boost domestic energy supplies and ease surging household bills.
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.
