Three permits given by the Norwegian government to develop new offshore oil and gas fields were found to be invalid on Thursday because their environmental impact was not sufficiently assessed, in a ruling that could set a precedent for new fields, Ednews reports according to Reuters.
Environmental campaign groups had asked the Oslo District Court to block the development of the three North Sea fields, citing a failure to consider the impact of the future use of all the extracted fossil fuels on the global climate through the greenhouse gases they will emit.
The lawsuit filed by Greenpeace and its partner Nature and Youth concerns Equinor's (EQNR.OL), opens new tab Breidablikk and Aker BP's (AKRBP.OL), opens new tab Yggdrasil and Tyrving fields, which hold combined reserves of some 875 million barrels of oil equivalent.