The British government must soon decide whether it should give consent to(对……给予同意) two oil and gasfields, Rosebank in the North Atlantic and Jackdaw in the North Sea. Amid both insecurity(不安全，不稳定) of energy supplies and deadly(致命的，极其有害的) evidence of the climate crisis, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, is facing pressure from the oil and gas industry and unions on one side, and environmentalists on the other.
英国政府必须尽快决定是否批准两个油气田的开发，分别是大西洋北部的罗斯班克和北海的杰克道夫。在能源供应不稳定和气候危机致命证据的双重背景下，首相安迪·伯纳姆正面临来自石油和天然气行业及工会一方、环保主义者另一方的压力。
Labour’s manifesto(宣言，声明) commitment not to approve new drilling licences offers little help(几乎不起作用), because the fields already have licences, granted by the previous Conservative government in 2022 and 2023. But last year, Edinburgh’s court of session ruled that the environmental impact assessment(评估，评价)s on which this decision relied were unlawful(非法的，不合法的). The Conservative government had, the court ruled, failed to include the emissions generated when the oil and gas from the fields is burned.(法院裁定，保守党政府未能将油田油气燃烧产生的排放纳入考量。) The court allowed work to continue on the fields, but a new assessment had to be done and approval sought again.
工党宣言中不批准新钻探许可的承诺几乎无济于事，因为这些油田已持有许可证，由前保守党政府于2022年和2023年颁发。但去年，爱丁堡最高民事法院裁定，该决定所依据的环境影响评估不合法。法院裁定，保守党政府未能将油田产出的油气燃烧时产生的排放纳入考量。法院允许油田继续作业，但必须重新进行评估并再次寻求批准。
The issue facing the new energy and climate secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is whether the additional information on the fields’ global emissions alters(改变，修改) the grounds(理由，根据) for consent.
新任能源与气候大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒面临的问题是，关于这些油田全球排放的补充信息是否会改变批准的依据。