Greenpeace Loses Legal Bid to Revoke Permit for North Sea Oil Field

An oil platform stands amongst other rigs which have been left in the Cromarty Firth near Invergordon in the Highlands of Scotland, on Feb. 15, 2016. Andrew Milligan/PA

Greenpeace has lost a legal bid to have the UK Government’s decision to allow BP to drill for oil at a field in the North Sea overturned.

The environmental campaign group took legal action at the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest civil court, calling for BP’s permit to drill the Vorlich field in 2018 to be revoked.