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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 direct full-time jobs, documents show

A group of protesters outside the Houses of Parliament, surrounded by cardboard flames and holding a banner that reads: 'Fossil fuels? Andy Don't Burn 'em'
Activists from Fossil Free London call on Andy Burnham not to give the green light to Jackdaw and Rosebank. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

More people can fit on to the top deck of a standard London bus than will be directly employed on the new Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, industry documents show.

Only 27 direct full-time jobs would be created by Jackdaw, one of the biggest gasfields remaining in the North Sea, according to an environmental impact assessment filed publicly by its owner, Adura, a joint venture between Shell and Norway’s Equinor.

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