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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose

Oil firms vow to fight judicial review of North Sea oil and gas projects

A beach protest by Surfers Against Sewage with placards reading 'Stop Rosebank' and 'No new oil'
A protest by Surfers Against Sewage in Aberdeen in September 2023 against Equinor’s Rosebank oilfield project. Photograph: Andrew Perry/PA

Two of Europe’s biggest oil companies have vowed to fight two legal cases brought by environmental campaigners against their plans to develop new oil and gas projects in the North Sea.

Shell and Equinor have said that they will defend their plans to develop new North Sea projects despite Labour’s decision to withdraw government support for the plans, which were approved by the Conservatives over the last two years.

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