First Minister was confronted by protesters from the Green New Deal Rising while she was visiting the Govanhill Carnival in her Glasgow Southside constituency yesterday.
If given the go-ahead, the Cambo development could yield as many as 255 million barrels of oil over its lifetime, according to environmental campaigners.
And they estimated that the 132 million tonnes of CO2 emissions that could be produced would require an area of land some 1.5 times the size of Scotland to counteract them.The SNP leader was asked if she will oppose the oil field.
She replied: “Look, I’m not going to stand here – it’s not an issue for the Scottish Government. We are thinking about all of these things, we are trying to come to the right decision.
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