Good morning. After months of delay, the government has taken a decision on one of the most difficult climate crisis/energy supply challenges on the table. It has approved the Jackdaw gasfield, east of Aberdeen. Peter Walker and Kiran Stacey have the story here.
Here is the government’s news release. And if you want to all the technical documents relating to the decision, you will find them here.
At the last election, Labour said it would not approve new oil and gas licences for the North Sea, but that it would allow existing projects to go ahead. But two projects that had been
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