Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: The Cure, Massive Attack, Lola Young, Paloma Faith, Brian Eno and over 100 other musicians have added their voice urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to stop the huge Rosebank oil field.

Trump’s Scotland visit wasn’t just about golf. His call to "Get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil" is an attempt to meddle in our energy transition. We have abundant wind resources which can provide us with energy security, lower bills, and good jobs. @jeremyvine.bsky.social

Another day, another story from the oil & gas industry that's all spin. The latest claim is there's an extra 3.5-ish bn barrels of O&G there for the taking in the North Sea, which would generate huge riches for the UK. Except the underlying analysis confirms this is "beyond realistic assumptions" /1

The UK gov has just published new guidance for environmental impact assessments for oil & gas projects. Despite reports/industry spin, it includes a genuinely robust, credible approach to assessing the emissions caused by burning oil & gas. Let's take a look! 🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2525207...

@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social tells #earthfest: “The UK has been through harrowing austerity: 6m households in energy poverty. Yet Equinor has made record profits. Oil and gas is making the obscenely rich obscenely richer - at the expense of everyone else”

1 MILLION PEOPLE signed this petition calling on the UK government to stop new oil and gas. That's a pretty huge deal. Humbled to bring your voices to no. 10. #StopRosebank

Lots of claims flying around this week (eg Nigel Farage who thinks we can be "self-sufficient" in gas) that the UK can drill its way to energy security. Here's why that's a fantasy, as I explained to Reform's Richard Tice on LBC earlier:

Ronnie Barbour interviews Lauren MacDonald from Uplift and Mark Ruskell, Scottish Green MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife about the Rosebank oilfield @ronniebarbour.bsky.social @laurenthesunflower.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social

Good to see opposition to Rosebank growing, in addition to the broad group that already sees through the arguments of profiteering oil & gas giants (more on that ⬇️). But the arguments against this field are about so much more than carbon emissions: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

BREAKING 🚨 : over 400,000 signatures and counting, calling on UK Gov to STOP new oil drilling and SPEED UP a just transition to cheaper cleaner energy.

Oil giants know the cost of their actions, but they keep relentlessly pushing for more oil and gas. So it’s up to us to stand in the way, to hold governments accountable to standing in their way, and to take it to the courts where needed to stop disastrous projects like Rosebank once and for all.

The number of jobs the North Sea supports has already halved in the last decade, despite hundreds of new fossil fuel licences in that period. Anna Carthy joined us on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast - subscribe on all good podcast platforms!

New platform, same fight ✊ We're going to stop the Rosebank oil field and all new fossil fuel projects ❌🛢 In 2021, we successfully stopped the Cambo oil field by making Shell pull out of the project. We can do it again. Find out more about #StopRosebank: stopcambo.org.uk/act

Every single fraction of a degree of warming that we stop is countless lives saved. It will always be worth it.

this is a really brilliant opportunity, Scottish spokespeople!

Utenlandske investorer ber Equinor om å operere i tråd med Parisavtalen. WWF og Greenpeace er aksjonærer i selskapet og reagerer på at staten ikke støtter kritikken. – Vi er ferdige med å be Equinor ta til fornuft, sier Lauren MacDonald fra Skottland. www.transitmag.no/2024/05/14/e...

“Today, we are on the precipice of a massive victory for the climate,” says Lauren MacDonald ahead of StopCambo’s Edinburgh court case against the Rosebank oilfield.

En tale fra den skotske klimaaktivisten Lauren MacDonald har blitt sett over 3 millioner ganger i sosiale medier. Talen ble holdt under Equinors generalforsamling. www.transitmag.no/2024/05/24/e...

Hundreds of people at Stop Rosebank rally in Edinburgh tonight. Lawsuit between Equinor and Uplift starts tomorrow.

Grateful to be a part of the NEON spokesperson network ☺️🙏🏼