Environmentalists are 'understandably' concerned about the approval of Rosebank's new oil and gas field, Andrew Marr has said.
, the presenter said: "Well you’d expect a new oil field to generate a lot of heat.
"If some people are alarmed, that's not surprising: if burned those 500 million barrels would emit as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as running 56 coal-fired power stations for a year."Rosebank has made environmentalists every bit as upset as you’d expect. The Greens’ only MP Caroline Lucas described today’s announcement as morally obscene. Greenpeace called it catastrophic.
He continued: "You can see why opening a new oil and gas field, one of the last ones left round Britain, is a big deal.
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