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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Lucy Garcia

Shetland sends short-film plea to Norway over oil field plans

SHETLANDERS have sent a “message in a bottle” plea to Norway to oppose development of a controversial oil field.

The short film by campaigners, titled Dear Norway, calls on their “siblings across the sea” to halt work on the Rosebank oil field, 80 miles off Shetland’s coast.

Rosebank is thought to hold the equivalent of 500 million barrels, making it the largest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea.

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