Court Battles Could Derail UK’s Huge New Oil and Gas Projects

The two biggest oil and gas projects approved for development in the UK’s North Sea over the past two years could be delayed or never completed as the hurdles to oil and gas drilling in Britain are becoming higher. Shell and Equinor operators of the Jackdaw and Rosebank projects, respectively, will have to defend their developments in a court in Scotland next month after environmentalists won landmark court battles earlier this year and the Labour government dropped its defense of the judicial reviews against the plans. While environmental…