Cambo field is already licensed for exploration but two oil companies, Siccar Point and Shell, are now bidding to start extracting up to 170 billion barrels of oil over the next 25 years.
The drilling licence has become a touchstone issue in the run-up to the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Climate activists urged Nicola Sturgeon to join the SNP’s coalition partners the Scottish Greens in calling for Westminster to revoke the licence granted for the Cambo oilfield and the First Minister eventually called on Johnson to “reassess” the permit.
When asked about the Cambo field, excluding the 27 percent who neither support nor oppose and the 12 percent who don’t know, the poll showed 66 percent to 34 percent of Scots in favour of the.
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