Kevin Keane<\/span>Environment, energy and rural affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n The oil company Shell has submitted a fresh environmental impact assessment for the controversial Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.<\/p>\n The company was forced to produce a new assessment after a successful legal challenge by the environmental group Greenpeace.<\/p>\n The courts ruled that emissions from burning the oil and gas must be considered by ministers when deciding whether to give projects the go-ahead.<\/p>\n It means the consent previously granted was ruled unlawful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Jackdaw field \u2013 150 miles east of Aberdeen \u2013 will be capable of producing 6% of the UK’s gas needs.<\/p>\n Construction is well underway for the production platform for the gas field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n However Shell has been told it cannot begin production until a fresh decision has been made by the UK government.<\/p>\n A Shell spokesman said: “We have submitted our response to the regulator’s request for further information on Jackdaw, which includes the assessment of scope three emissions associated with the project. <\/p>\n “We remain committed to delivering Jackdaw, which is a nationally important project that is almost complete and would provide enough fuel to heat 1.4 million homes.<\/p>\n “North Sea projects like Jackdaw deliver energy to UK homes and industry with significantly less emissions than importing more gas from overseas.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Details of the new environmental impact assessment have not been released but are expected to be published by the UK government.<\/p>\n The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said it could not comment on individual projects.<\/p>\n Greenpeace says the public has a right to see the information being submitted to the regulator and that the government has a duty to take it into account.<\/p>\n The charity’s senior climate campaigner Philip Evans added: “It’s not surprising to see Shell doggedly pursue a new gas project that will boost their multi-billion-pound profits while fuelling more extreme weather and bringing no relief to bill payers. <\/p>\n “But we have won a decisive court ruling that forced Shell and other oil giants to come clean over the full scale of climate damage caused by new drilling projects in the North Sea.”<\/p>\n The decision over whether to give the go ahead to the Jackdaw field, alongside Equinor’s Rosebank oil development, will be the first to be taken since the court ruling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"BBC](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/835e\/live\/bb77a7a0-de91-11ef-9eb6-8fdce3e92de3.jpg.webp\")
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