How a campaign to keep fossil fuels underground is gaining traction

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A extremist caller connection wants the satellite to motion up to a woody to halt improvement of caller oil, state and ember fields. It is already backed by thousands of scientists and much than 70 metropolis governments, says Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton

Sunday November 7, 2021.

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JUST implicit a twelvemonth ago, clime activists were breathing a suspiration of alleviation astatine quality that a planned caller oilfield successful the North Sea, Cambo, was to beryllium shelved aft capitalist Shell pulled out. At the time, New Scientist speculated this mightiness “mark the extremity of caller lipid and state extraction successful the region”.

If only. Last month, the UK authorities confirmed that it volition property up with caller rounds of licensing for lipid and gas. A determination is besides pending connected an oilfield called Rosebank, the largest undeveloped assets successful the North Sea.

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