Tessa Khan, executive director at Uplift, said: “Rosebank has nothing to do with the UK’s energy security and everything to do with increasing the profits of a few already obscenely wealthy oil companies.
“Rosebank won’t take a penny off our bills or meaningfully boost UK energy supplies – it’s overwhelmingly oil for export. But burning its oil would produce emissions equal to 70 per cent of the UK’s annual total, making it utterly incompatible with safe climate limits.
“The record-breaking heat across the UK and Europe has already claimed thousands of lives, further strained our schools, hospitals, and transport networks, and put even more stress on our farmers. These impacts will get worse as long as we keep drilling for fossil fuels.
“The science is clear: the world already has far more oil and gas than can be burned safely if we are to maintain a liveable climate for ourselves and our children.
“We are through the looking glass if we’re even considering drilling on the scale of Rosebank when we are already seeing the impacts of climate change, with parts of this country literally on fire.
“Rosebank is the defining test of the Burnham government’s credibility on climate. It must choose: protect oil company profits, or protect people from soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis.”
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