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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris Skidmore

I’m a Tory MP, but I can’t let ministers trash our net zero pledge with the Rosebank oilfield

Climate activists protest against Rosebank oil and gas field, London, 15 January 2023.
Climate activists protest against Rosebank oil and gas field, London, 15 January 2023. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

As the chair of Mission Zero, the independent review of net zero for the government, I have met countless champions of innovation, and witnessed ingenuity and unwavering ambition to drive forward net zero in the UK.

The imperative to reduce carbon across the economy has never been stronger. It is therefore concerning that, at a time when the UK should be embracing a renewable future, an application has been submitted by the Norwegian state-owned oil company Equinor to open the UK’s largest undeveloped oilfield – Rosebank, in the North Sea.

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