Croydon Community Energy supports the #StopRosebank campaign!
Rosebank is a proposed oil and gas field, situated 80 miles off Shetland in the North Sea. It is the UK’s largest untapped reservoir of oil and is expected to produce 500 million barrels of oil. The CO2 produced is equivalent to that of the 28 lowest-income countries in the world – or 700 million people. The approval of Rosebank is a disastrous decision by the UK government for many reasons including putting marine life at risk including whales and dolphins, clams that live for hundreds of years, corals and the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt and a pipeline will be laid through a Marine-Protected Area. Rosebank would also be the deepest field ever developed on the UK continental shelf because the oil lies over a kilometre under the surface. Excavating Rosebank comes at a high-cost, is dangerous and will pollute our planet.