Shell to install Jackdaw gas platform in North Sea despite being blocked from drilling, Sky News understands

Energy giant Shell is due to install a multi-billion pound gas platform in the North Sea this spring despite being blocked from drilling, Sky News understands.The Jackdaw field, which it is claimed could eventually power more than a million UK homes, has to get fresh approval from Downing Street to extract gas after a ruling this week by a Scottish court. A judge in Edinburgh decided the previous Conservative government acted "unlawfully" when it gave consent to Shell's Jackdaw and Rosebank, the UK's larges ...