Finally, after pressure from industry, the Conservatives and public opinion, Labour have done the right thing by allowing gas to be drilled at Jackdaw.
It would be too much to hope that we would get a decision on the Rosebank oil field, too. It is now two-and-a-half years since Ed Miliband withdrew lawyers from the Court of Session appeal against the decision to block the two fields.
Had my party remained in power, we would have won that appeal. The withdrawal of government lawyers was a political decision made by a Secretary of State – then Ed Miliband – ideologically bent on
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