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Following the UK government’s decision to give the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea the green light, there have been new protests outside the energy department in London. Jackdaw is one of the biggest undeveloped gas fields in the North Sea, and the approval was met with outrage from climate campaigners – but welcomed by the declining British North Sea fossil fuel industry, which has also called on the government to approve the Rosebank oilfield.