New Shetland oil field proposal condemned by environmentalists

The Rosebank field could produce around 8% of the UK's oil production and support around 1,200 jobs

Steven Brown

An oil and gas field development off Shetland could support more than a thousand jobs.

But environmental groups have hit out at the proposed development and say they will fight the plans.

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