“During a call in Dec with three Equinor executives, one of the company’s team told Jeremy Allen, then director of the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ), that Equinor ‘appreciate[d] the … collaborative approach to policy development’.”
This had to end. It’s a scandal.
Equinor is hell bent on driving us past safe climate limits
Rosebank’s owner cannot be allowed to help set UK government policy.
It’s a recipe for climate disaster, high energy bills and soaring oil company profits.
We always hoped our fight in Surrey would have wider impacts.
So good to see that happen with today's announcement: the Govt won't defend the development consents for Rosebank & Jackdaw.
Here's a #StopRosebank banner on the Horse Hill gates.
https://t.co/AgZ2GgVqw6
@Knipetang@Equinor Delek Group, majoritetseier av Ithaca Energy som er Equinors partner på Rosebank-feltet, har vært på FNs svarteliste over selskaper som opererer i okkuperte områder i Palestina siden 2020. Hvis Rosebank bygges ut kan > 6 milliarder NOK ende hos Delek https://t.co/JLq77WUlhP
Stor seier for #StopRosebank kampanjen 🤩
Labour vil ikke forsvare tillatelsen gitt av Rishi Sunaks regjering.
Nå er det opp til @Equinor - vil de fortsette et løp som vil slippe ut mer CO2 enn verdens 28 lavinntekstland og sende milliarder til et selskap svartelistet av FN?
BREAKING 🚨: The UK government has decided not to defend the case against Rosebank.
This is a massive win and a huge step towards stopping Rosebank for good.
🚨Norway's oil giant @equinor earned a shocking $7.48 billion in the last 3 months. 99% of the energy Equinor produces is oil & gas.
Around the world homes, communities and livelihoods are destroyed by extreme weather. Equinor is fuelling the climate crisis and must be stopped.
BREAKING 🚨: Oil giant @Equinor rakes in £5.8 BILLION profit in past 3 months.
Equinor is Norway’s *state-owned* oil giant.
Norway presents itself as a climate leader, but profits from Equinor’s climate-wrecking oil and gas projects all over the world 🧵
NEW 🚨: 60+ climate organisations call on the incoming government to fund a just transition for North Sea workers and communities.
Alongside phasing out oil + gas, the next govt must commit to:
🔨a UK-wide industrial strategy
✊🏽expanding trade union rights
✅a Jobs Guarantee
BREAKING: @greenpeacenorge activists occupy Equinor offices over their partnership with Ithaca Energy on the Rosebank oil field.
Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by the Delek Group - a company operating in West Bank settlements and whose activities have raised human rights concerns. These settlements are considered illegal under international law.
If the Rosebank oil field goes ahead, some of its vast oil profits could flow to Delek.
Equinor should not enable the flow of money to a company whose activities are contributing to the ongoing violence and dispossession faced by Palestinians.
#StopRosebank
🚨 Breaking: Greenpeace in Norway is taking action against @equinor over its contribution to the illegal occupation of Palestine.
5 activists are occupying Equinor offices, demanding that the oil & gas giant immediately ends its partnership with Ithaca Energy and #StopRosebank
🚨HUGE CLIMATE WIN🚨
For the first time the UK Supreme Court has ruled a new oil drilling licence unlawful because the government IGNORED emissions from burning fossil fuels.
This could help stop future fossil fuel projects. We need a renewable energy plan focused on workers.⬇️
Today's decision by the Supreme Court in the Finch case is genuinely historic. It marks a turning point towards more sensible planning-related decision-making in the UK, and crucially towards a safer climate.
https://t.co/a1QmuDIdFx
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If sites like Horse Hill are deemed unlawful on this basis, other oil and gas projects should be too.
This includes the huge Rosebank field off the coast of Shetland, which will emit more CO2 than the world’s 28 low income countries combined.
WIN 💥: Supreme Court rules against oil drilling in Surrey in historic case.
Today’s judgment means that the days of approving climate wrecking projects without regard for their impact on our planet are OVER.
#HorseHill
We told @equinor that a new gas burning power station at Peterhead will
❌worsen climate breakdown
❌lock home energy bills to expensive gas
❌undermine the transition to renewables
The @scotgov must reject these plans & choose a future powered by clean, green energy.
"Rosebank is the full package: It contributes to human rights violations & is destructive to the climate…the only reason why the development is economically beneficial is that oil prices have risen so much due to the wars in Ukraine & Gaza. This is war profiteering” @NaomiAKlein
«Rosebank er full pakke: Det bidrar til menneskerettighetsbrudd og er ødeleggende for klima. Og den eneste grunnen til at utbyggingen er økonomisk gunstig, er at oljeprisen har steget så mye på grunn av krigene i Ukraina og Gaza. Dette er krigsprofittering»
✊ @NaomiAKlein