Green campaigners have reacted with fury after the Tory government dished out 27 new oil and gas licences in the North Sea.
It comes in the wake of the controversial green light for the Rosebank development off Shetland last month - the UK’s largest untapped oil field. “This is a wilful dereliction of duty from an energy minister who is committing the people she is supposed to represent to more frequent and more intense storms and floods like those that are lashing the UK right now.
Top news stories today Philip Evans, climate campaigner for Greenpeace UK, added: "Greenpeace plans to fight these licences in the courtroom, and we're mobilising voters to prioritise climate at the next election, because frankly we're all sick of these backward-facing policies." "These are the very people we need to deliver reliable supplies of homegrown energy produced in the UK, for the UK.