Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project

Greenpeace UK and Uplift are seeking a judicial review in the Scottish courts to stop opening of huge new oilfield Climate campaigners have launched two separate legal challenges to government plans to open a massive new oilfield in the North Sea. Greenpeace and the campaign group Uplift argue that the decision to press ahead with the Rosebank development - the UK's biggest untapped oilfield - is incompatible with the UK's legally binding climate commitments, and say ministers' original analysis...