The Jackdaw field, which it is claimed could eventually power more than a million UK homes, has to get fresh approval from Downing Street to extract gas after a ruling this week by a Scottish court.

The Labour government has banned issuing new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. Ministers accepted that approving ...

The judge, Lord Ericht, banned production at the Jackdaw gas and Rosebank oil projects in the North Sea, operated by Shell and Equinor respectively, after ruling that “the private interest of members ...

The written judgement on the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields came after a case brought by environmental campaigners, Uplift and Greenpeace, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. In his judgement ...