{"id":238084,"date":"2023-01-06T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=238084"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:31:45","slug":"climate-hysteria-scottish-greens-prefer-imports-to-new-rosebank-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=238084","title":{"rendered":"Climate hysteria: Scottish Greens prefer imports to new Rosebank oil field?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"238087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=238087\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-212\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/tallbloke.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/06\/climate-hysteria-scottish-greens-prefer-imports-to-new-rosebank-oil-field\/\">Tallbloke&#8217;s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Worldwide oil consumption is close to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/265239\/global-oil-consumption-in-barrels-per-day\/\">100 million barrels per day<\/a>, and rising (apart from a small Covid-related slowdown). Rosebank is the proverbial drop in the ocean, and would reduce the need for imported oil. Demand has to be met from somewhere for the modern world to function, and Russian supply is off the menu.<\/em><br>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<br>H\/T saighdear<br>. . .<br>Plans to create an oil field more than twice the size of the controversial Cambo development risk \u201cwrecking\u201d Scotland\u2019s climate and setting net-zero targets back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosebank, located north-west of Shetland, could produce over 70,000 barrels of oil every day at its peak under proposals brought before Westminster by Norwegian state-controlled company Equinor,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/scotland\/shetland-rosebank-oil-field-twice-size-of-cambo-would-be-environmental-disaster-greens-warn\">says STV News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However The Scottish Greens have branded the blueprints \u201ca climate disaster\u201d and urged the UK government to turn the bid down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes just months after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon publicly condemned the Cambo plans, which were shelved last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish Government does not have the power to block new oil fields being created, but Green MSP Mark Ruskell, the party\u2019s energy and environment spokesman, said the opportunity to state the UK\u2019s credentials as a leader on climate change \u201cmust not be squandered\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are already past the point when we should have been moving away from oil and gas, yet Westminster is doubling down on it,\u201d he said.<br>. . .<br>Rosebank is the biggest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea, with nearly 500 million barrels \u2013 a claim disputed by Equinor which says the recoverable reserves estimate 300 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Equinor has said a final investment decision could be made in 2023, with the first oil expected in late 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Full article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/scotland\/shetland-rosebank-oil-field-twice-size-of-cambo-would-be-environmental-disaster-greens-warn\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"238085\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=238085\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-211\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-211.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide oil consumption is close to\u00a0100 million barrels per day, and rising (apart from a small Covid-related slowdown). Rosebank is the proverbial drop in the ocean, and would reduce the need for imported oil. Demand has to be met from somewhere for the modern world to function, and Russian supply is off the menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":238087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-212.png?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-ZW4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":364304,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364304","url_meta":{"origin":238084,"position":0},"title":"The Climate Impacts of Rosebank\u00a0Field","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/03\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This week\u00a0came the news\u00a0that permission for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields was unlawful, owing to a failure to take into account the effect of downstream emissions, i.e. the combustion of the extracted products.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/02531e8504321f3d53cc699737c5727f7-1673002582-1280x720-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/02531e8504321f3d53cc699737c5727f7-1673002582-1280x720-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/02531e8504321f3d53cc699737c5727f7-1673002582-1280x720-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/02531e8504321f3d53cc699737c5727f7-1673002582-1280x720-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/02531e8504321f3d53cc699737c5727f7-1673002582-1280x720-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":433224,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=433224","url_meta":{"origin":238084,"position":1},"title":"Britain&#8217;s Biggest Untapped Oil Field Set for Autumn Startup \u2014 If Ed Miliband Gives the Green Light","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/22\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rosebank oil field is the UK's largest undeveloped oil and gas project in the North Sea, located about 60 miles west of the Shetland Islands. Rosebank is operated by Ithaca Energy (with co-ownership involving Adura and originally Equinor involvement in planning).","rel":"","context":"In \"climate targets\"","block_context":{"text":"climate targets","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-targets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Britains-Biggest-Untapped-Oil-Field-Set-for-Autumn-Startup-%E2%80%94-If-Ed-Miliband-Gives-the-Green-Light1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Britains-Biggest-Untapped-Oil-Field-Set-for-Autumn-Startup-%E2%80%94-If-Ed-Miliband-Gives-the-Green-Light1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Britains-Biggest-Untapped-Oil-Field-Set-for-Autumn-Startup-%E2%80%94-If-Ed-Miliband-Gives-the-Green-Light1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Britains-Biggest-Untapped-Oil-Field-Set-for-Autumn-Startup-%E2%80%94-If-Ed-Miliband-Gives-the-Green-Light1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":280798,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280798","url_meta":{"origin":238084,"position":2},"title":"Net Zero Watch welcomes green light for Rosebank","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed the decision by the UK Government and the North Sea Authority to give the go-ahead to the giant Rosebank oil and gas field off the coast of Shetland.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/01200x800.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/01200x800.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/01200x800.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/01200x800.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/01200x800.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":280825,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280825","url_meta":{"origin":238084,"position":3},"title":"Rosebank: Biggest untapped UK oil field approved by regulators \u2013 net-zero climate obsessives chew the\u00a0wasp","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Opponents don\u2019t have much to say about where they think the essential oil and gas should come from, but churn out the usual dogmatic moans anyway. Even by 2050 under net-zero policies, large quantities of these products are\u00a0still expected to be needed\u00a0keep the country functioning. 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