#shetland — Public Fediverse posts
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Boo hiss...
Controversial #JackdawGasField set to be approved in weeks, sources say
Simon Jack, 3 September 2026
"The #UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new #GasField off the coast of #Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
"Approval for the Jackdaw project could come in mid-September, just before #Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources.
"The gas field was approved by the former #ConservativeGovernment in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a #ScottishCourt, after #EnvironmentalGroups argued consent was given without fully considering the #ClimateImpact.
"Jackdaw's owner says it will account for 6% of UK gas output when at peak production but environmental groups say it will provide only 2% of UK use when imports are included.
"Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the #RosebankOilField off #Shetland was given the green light in 2023.
"The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that #Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted #OilAndGas from the sites.
"A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and further estimates were put out for consultation in July.
"Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by #Adura, a joint venture between energy giants #ShellOil and Norway's #Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank.
"Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m tonnes - equivalent to 60% of the 2023 figure.
" #Environmentalists insist that more #drilling would be unconscionable, hampering efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly #heatwaves and #ExtremeWeather affect billions across the globe.
"They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to #GreenerTechnologies would be better for supporting jobs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9xe09jz4eo#RenewablesNow #NoDrilling #NorthSea #ScottishCoast #UKNews #UKPol #Scotland #BigOilAndGas #ShellLies #Oiligarchy
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Boo hiss...
Controversial #JackdawGasField set to be approved in weeks, sources say
Simon Jack, 3 September 2026
"The #UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new #GasField off the coast of #Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
"Approval for the Jackdaw project could come in mid-September, just before #Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources.
"The gas field was approved by the former #ConservativeGovernment in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a #ScottishCourt, after #EnvironmentalGroups argued consent was given without fully considering the #ClimateImpact.
"Jackdaw's owner says it will account for 6% of UK gas output when at peak production but environmental groups say it will provide only 2% of UK use when imports are included.
"Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the #RosebankOilField off #Shetland was given the green light in 2023.
"The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that #Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted #OilAndGas from the sites.
"A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and further estimates were put out for consultation in July.
"Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by #Adura, a joint venture between energy giants #ShellOil and Norway's #Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank.
"Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m tonnes - equivalent to 60% of the 2023 figure.
" #Environmentalists insist that more #drilling would be unconscionable, hampering efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly #heatwaves and #ExtremeWeather affect billions across the globe.
"They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to #GreenerTechnologies would be better for supporting jobs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9xe09jz4eo#RenewablesNow #NoDrilling #NorthSea #ScottishCoast #UKNews #UKPol #Scotland #BigOilAndGas #ShellLies #Oiligarchy
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Boo hiss...
Controversial #JackdawGasField set to be approved in weeks, sources say
Simon Jack, 3 September 2026
"The #UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new #GasField off the coast of #Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
"Approval for the Jackdaw project could come in mid-September, just before #Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources.
"The gas field was approved by the former #ConservativeGovernment in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a #ScottishCourt, after #EnvironmentalGroups argued consent was given without fully considering the #ClimateImpact.
"Jackdaw's owner says it will account for 6% of UK gas output when at peak production but environmental groups say it will provide only 2% of UK use when imports are included.
"Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the #RosebankOilField off #Shetland was given the green light in 2023.
"The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that #Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted #OilAndGas from the sites.
"A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and further estimates were put out for consultation in July.
"Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by #Adura, a joint venture between energy giants #ShellOil and Norway's #Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank.
"Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m tonnes - equivalent to 60% of the 2023 figure.
" #Environmentalists insist that more #drilling would be unconscionable, hampering efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly #heatwaves and #ExtremeWeather affect billions across the globe.
"They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to #GreenerTechnologies would be better for supporting jobs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9xe09jz4eo#RenewablesNow #NoDrilling #NorthSea #ScottishCoast #UKNews #UKPol #Scotland #BigOilAndGas #ShellLies #Oiligarchy
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Boo hiss...
Controversial #JackdawGasField set to be approved in weeks, sources say
Simon Jack, 3 September 2026
"The #UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new #GasField off the coast of #Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
"Approval for the Jackdaw project could come in mid-September, just before #Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources.
"The gas field was approved by the former #ConservativeGovernment in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a #ScottishCourt, after #EnvironmentalGroups argued consent was given without fully considering the #ClimateImpact.
"Jackdaw's owner says it will account for 6% of UK gas output when at peak production but environmental groups say it will provide only 2% of UK use when imports are included.
"Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the #RosebankOilField off #Shetland was given the green light in 2023.
"The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that #Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted #OilAndGas from the sites.
"A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and further estimates were put out for consultation in July.
"Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by #Adura, a joint venture between energy giants #ShellOil and Norway's #Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank.
"Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m tonnes - equivalent to 60% of the 2023 figure.
" #Environmentalists insist that more #drilling would be unconscionable, hampering efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly #heatwaves and #ExtremeWeather affect billions across the globe.
"They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to #GreenerTechnologies would be better for supporting jobs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9xe09jz4eo#RenewablesNow #NoDrilling #NorthSea #ScottishCoast #UKNews #UKPol #Scotland #BigOilAndGas #ShellLies #Oiligarchy
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Boo hiss...
Controversial #JackdawGasField set to be approved in weeks, sources say
Simon Jack, 3 September 2026
"The #UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new #GasField off the coast of #Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
"Approval for the Jackdaw project could come in mid-September, just before #Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources.
"The gas field was approved by the former #ConservativeGovernment in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a #ScottishCourt, after #EnvironmentalGroups argued consent was given without fully considering the #ClimateImpact.
"Jackdaw's owner says it will account for 6% of UK gas output when at peak production but environmental groups say it will provide only 2% of UK use when imports are included.
"Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the #RosebankOilField off #Shetland was given the green light in 2023.
"The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that #Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted #OilAndGas from the sites.
"A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and further estimates were put out for consultation in July.
"Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by #Adura, a joint venture between energy giants #ShellOil and Norway's #Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank.
"Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m tonnes - equivalent to 60% of the 2023 figure.
" #Environmentalists insist that more #drilling would be unconscionable, hampering efforts to cut planet-warming carbon emissions as deadly #heatwaves and #ExtremeWeather affect billions across the globe.
"They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to #GreenerTechnologies would be better for supporting jobs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9xe09jz4eo#RenewablesNow #NoDrilling #NorthSea #ScottishCoast #UKNews #UKPol #Scotland #BigOilAndGas #ShellLies #Oiligarchy
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myshetland.co.uk/a-day-of-two...
Rain this morning. Sun by the afternoon. The sheep refused to go out!
#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandsheep #weather #rainorshine #wetweather #sunnyafternoon #shetlandpony
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myshetland.co.uk/a-day-of-two...
Rain this morning. Sun by the afternoon. The sheep refused to go out!
#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandsheep #weather #rainorshine #wetweather #sunnyafternoon #shetlandpony
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myshetland.co.uk/a-day-of-two...
Rain this morning. Sun by the afternoon. The sheep refused to go out!
#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandsheep #weather #rainorshine #wetweather #sunnyafternoon #shetlandpony
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myshetland.co.uk/a-day-of-two...
Rain this morning. Sun by the afternoon. The sheep refused to go out!
#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandsheep #weather #rainorshine #wetweather #sunnyafternoon #shetlandpony
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myshetland.co.uk/a-day-of-two...
Rain this morning. Sun by the afternoon. The sheep refused to go out!
#myshetland #shetland #shetlandislands #shetlandsheep #weather #rainorshine #wetweather #sunnyafternoon #shetlandpony
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Playlists on Traditional Folk and Dance Music on Spotify → Part 2
Introduction novaTopFlex has created two (2) distinct playlists on traditional folk and dance musical styles associated with the European continent on Spotify, beginning the journey with the significant repertoire and formats of the British Isles and continuing the journey eventually into similar formats found in the Scandinavian and larger Nordic regions overall. The British Isles playlist centers specifically on the modern countries of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪, […] -
High costs and unreliable #deliveries for #parcels in Shetland, report finds
Consumer #Scotland has published a report into its findings in #Shetland, #Orkney and the #WesternIsles, saying #islanders faced “high #postal costs” and “inconsistent services”.
A #RoyalMail decision to move postal #flights to #Glasgow instead of #Aberdeen has often been cited as resulting in longer delivery times in Shetland.
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The Trows of #Orkney and #Shetland
What is a #Trow?
According to Saxby and Edmondston’s 'Home of a #Naturalist’ (1888):
“This interesting race of #supernatural beings is closely allied to the #Scandinavian #Trolls, but has some very distinctive characteristics of its own. The Trow is not such a mischief-making #sprite as the Troll, is more #human-like in some respects, and his #nature seems cast in a #morbid, #melancholy mould.”
https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-trows-of-orkney-and-shetland.html
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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either… It is not just poetry about a science-fictional subject. It is poetry in which the poetry itself is science fiction.”
–Cat Fitzpatrick reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for STRANGE HORIZONS
8/8
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry
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In 2019, Harry Josephie Giles’s SF verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published by Picador in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at “the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force” & a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent
“For Tait, making the bigger picture – making feature films, and working on a bigger scale – didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”
—Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work
5/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #film #cinema
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Norse Past, Victorian Present
“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle and a literary fantasy. It is a Christian book of bloodshed that celebrates saints alongside murderers. Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment”
—Simon Hall addresses Orcadian readings of the 12th/13th-century Orkneyinga Saga
4/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #saga #OrkneyingaSaga #medieval #Viking
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Auld rock meets Nordic Noir
“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”
—Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness
3/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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A Deep, Owld Anchor
“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”
—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan
2/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/a-deep-owld-anchor/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, Orkney & Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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Storm Pegs: An Evening with Jen Hadfield
14 Aug, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, GlasgowT.S Eliot prize-winning poet Jen Hadfield comes to Glasgow to discuss her lyrical love letter to Shetland, STORM PEGS – a stunningly crafted meditation on language, belonging & nature, & one of the most anticipated releases of 2024
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After Christian I of Norway failed to pay the dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed to the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
#Scottish #literature #Vikings #Norse #Orcadian #Shetlandic #sciencefiction