The emissions from Jackdaw are a fraction of those estimated for the Rosebank oil field, which is expected to emit almost 250 million tonnes over its lifetime.<\/p>\n
Both projects are well through the construction phase but a judge ordered that production was not to commence until fresh environmental impact assessments had been considered by the UK government and regulators.<\/p>\n
Those documents are now on the minister’s desk awaiting a final decision over whether they can go ahead.<\/p>\n
Consideration has to be given to the impact of the two fields on a legally-binding commitment to keep global temperature rises to below 2C.<\/p>\n
Publication of the assessment from Shell comes as the latest UN climate change negotiations – COP30 – draw to a close in Brazil.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Shell said the UK will need gas “for many years to come” and that the Jackdaw field will provide enough fuel to heat 1.4 million homes.<\/p>\n
They added: “Producing gas here in the UK generates less emissions than shipping it from overseas, while strengthening energy security, supporting local jobs and contributing to the UK economy.<\/p>\n
“To be clear, the UK will consume this gas, wherever it is produced. Homegrown energy projects like Jackdaw can help to reduce overall emissions.”<\/p>\n
Commenting on the report, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director Areeba Hamid said: “Now our legal win has forced Shell to reveal the sheer scale of pollution expected from Jackdaw, it’s looking more and more like a dud project for the UK.<\/p>\n
“The gas from Jackdaw won’t take a penny off our energy bills but will generate as many emissions as 20 million cars driving on UK roads for a year. This will fuel more extreme weather like the devastating droughts, wildfires and floods we have seen this year, leaving ordinary people to pick up the bill.<\/p>\n
“It’s decision-time for ministers. If they approve Jackdaw, it’ll be Shell’s profit, our loss.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emissions from Jackdaw are a fraction of those estimated for the Rosebank oil field, which is expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-275876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}