Shell’s North Sea oil U-turn: ‘a first victory in a longer war’?

Controversy after oil giant pulls out of proposed Cambo project

Activists holding sign reading 'Stop Cambo'
Activists protest the proposed Cambo oilfield project on 11 November
(Image credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

How times change, said Ross Clark in The Spectator. For decades, the SNP traded on the idea that “Scotland’s oil” would make an independent Scotland rich. But now Nicola Sturgeon’s party, with its Green coalition partner, has turned its back on fossil fuels.

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