DOZENS of organisation have joined forces to call on Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney to come out against drilling in the Rosebank oil and gas field.A final decision on whether to grant a licence to exploit the monster 500 million barrel field to the west of Shetland is expected shortly from the British government.Concerns are growing among environmental campaigners that the oil and gas price hike sparked by US president Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s illegal attack on Iran may lead to it being approved.

DOZENS of organisation have joined forces to call on Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney to come out against drilling in the Rosebank oil and gas field.

A final decision on whether to grant a licence to exploit the monster 500 million barrel field to the west of Shetland is expected shortly from the British government.

Concerns are growing among environmental campaigners that the oil and gas price hike sparked by US president Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s illegal attack on Iran may lead to it being approved.

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