'Incompatible' with climate plans: Greenpeace and Uplift launch legal action over Rosebank approval

Stuart Stone
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Government says it will 'robustly defend' itself against separate legal challenges that aim to overturn the decision to develop UK's largest untapped North Sea oil field

Greenpeace and Uplift have today launched separate legal challenges to attempt to overturn the government's controversial decision to green light the Rosebank project, which aims to drill the UK's largest...

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