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Jackdaw has been approved. Rosebank must not follow. Rosebank won’t bring down energy bills or tackle the climate crisis. Its oil is largely destined for export, while the damage from burning it will be felt around the world. 1/2

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

Is Margaret Thatcher still driving the bus in Scotland? www.thenational.scot/news/2667098...

#MakeTrumpHappyAgain

As the cost-of-living crisis pushes households to the brink and climate breakdown places further stress on public services, only the Green Party are pushing for genuine action at the Budget this week.

Almost 600 scientists, ecologists, health professionals and more have called on Andy Burnham to reject the re-submitted application for drilling Rosebank The science is abundantly clear - we cannot open new oil and gas fields. @profbillmcguire.bsky.social

If 33,000 died as a consequence of a terrorist attack, there would be mass mobilisation of society. When COVID killed people, we took society-wide action. Why do lives lost to climate catastrophe not deserve a coordinated society response and action to prevent further loss of life?

Just waking up and this is incredibly - and unexpected - good news to wake up to Brazil keeps far-right chancer out And Lula who has protected Amazon gets 4th term 🎊🎊🎊 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

On 21 October the government approved gas production at the Jackdaw field. As health professionals, we regard this as a matter of patient safety. Jackdaw is a health decision, not only an energy decision. Our position statement 🧵

@profpaulbehrens.bsky.social on TV this morning explaining how climate change impacts our food choices and how our food choices impact climate change

The media are coming for Zack! We must stand with him! harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-establ...

The Greens aren’t in crisis. They’ve become a credible threat and the establishment is in crisis. harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-greens...

There's a reason almost all mainstream media is ignoring this

A silent march was held on the streets of Paris to mark 1,000 days since Isr@el's war on Gaza began. 🇵🇸💔😢💔😢🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Attacks on trans people were never about protecting women, as they claimed. It was always about enforcing far right ideas about gender and sex on everyone.

Jackdaw gas field is not a jobs plan. It is not an energy bills plan. It is not an energy security plan. And it is certainly not a climate plan. We cannot wean ourselves off fossil fuels by burning more fossil fuels. Read more here:

Andy Burnham has traded our future for Jackdaw Gas Field. Stand with Carla Denyer and the Green Party: only a transition to renewables can save our climate and economy.

"The report, led by @kevinclimate.bsky.social from the @tyndallcentre.bsky.social, found that wealthy countries such as the #UK, #US and #Australia had until 2034 *to stop all oil and gas production* to give the world a 50% chance of preventing devastating climate breakdown"

and to all of creation.

In my view this is the most serious consequence of the Jackdaw decision. As for the future, this is a point that needs to be hammered home - "if Rosebank is approved, the UK will be providing a blueprint that any fossil fuel producer – established or prospective – can follow."

It's simply not good enough for the First Minister to sit on the fence when it comes to new oil and gas. John Swinney can double down on fossil fuels. Or he can protect our future generations from climate breakdown. But he can’t do both. He must tell the people of Scotland where he stands.

Follow End Bird Shooting if you agree this is disgusting. No living animal should be thrown in the bin ALIVE.

Business flights within the UK are literally fuelling climate breakdown. The Scottish Greens would tax those super-wealthy frequent flyers to fund a millennial railcard for those who currently cannot access discounts on rail travel to make public transport cheaper for everyone.

@adfreecities.bsky.social has made a complaint to the BBC and says you can do too! www.linkedin.com/posts/uk-ene...

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

The devastating consequences of climate breakdown are already here and the UN this week has warned that global warming will breach 1.5°C. Labour's response: pushing ahead with more fossil fuels by approving Jackdaw.

"It is simple science that wetter landscapes are harder to burn." Great piece by the @nationaltrust.org.uk's Director-General Hilary McGrady, as Andy Burnham holds a Wildfire Summit & the government announces £25m for re-wetting peatland: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Just a reminder that the science on the fundamentals of climate change isn't in doubt. news.cornell.edu/stories/2021...

We don’t need a business-as-usual Budget. We need a Budget to tax extreme wealth and make the UK affordable. This is the scale of change Britain desperately needs – and only the Green Party can deliver it.

So, we will transition to net-zero by increasing hydrocarbons extraction and use? Wow, they must think people are dumb.

Just one more gas field bro, I promise, it's the last one. I can handle this.

What bollocks. Still trying to pretend he’s in student digs is he. “I’m one of the lads I am”🤡

Agreed. Nerve is sometimes needed to continue doing what you know is right. jacobin.com/2026/10/gree...

The govt itself has admitted Jackdaw won't bring down energy bills or create many jobs. So I asked the PM: does Labour disagree with the overwhelming scientific consensus that fossil fuels must stay in the ground? Or was lobbying from the oil and gas lobby simply too difficult to ignore?

More neo-liberal bollocks from the Red Tories

#Burnham #Labour 🤦

..."There is absolutely no justification for the grouse shooting industry producing thousands of tonnes of harmful particulates just so there’s a few more grouse to shoot."

'We're resolute about the need to drive climate action. But that has to be part of a transition'. Opening new gas fields as part of a transition to net zero makes about as much sense as restocking your drinks cabinet as part of a transition to sobriety.

Jackdaw will do nothing for the people of Scotland. Plans show it will provide just 2% of UK gas demand, only create 27 jobs, and it will leave us more dependent on gas despite its global fluctuating prices. Investing in renewables will create thousands of jobs and cut household energy bills.

Please read - it's short and important! But if in a great hurry: "Closing line: The Government can call Jackdaw pragmatic, necessary or a compromise. But the atmosphere does not recognise political language. More fossil fuels mean more climate change. The physics does not compromise."

Jackdaw won't bring down bills or create many jobs. But it will leave us even more dependent on volatile global gas markets, and worsen the climate chaos we already see around us. It's shocking that no other party is willing to stand up for our planet against the greed of oil and gas companies.

Remember the centrists doing their little victory dance around this? Turns out that decades of indulging "legitimate concerns", punctuated by occasional bouts of tutting at the overt far right, does more to strengthen the far right than weaken it. Who could have guessed? (Many of us).

Green MP @sianberry.bsky.social condemns Labour's inhumane asylum plans.

We are in a climate emergency & yet the government just approved Jackdaw. As Green MPs, we've tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to keep fossil fuels in the ground (including Rosebank) and to focus on things that would actually lower bills & create secure jobs.