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North sea oil exploration platforms lie in the Cromerty Firth in northern Scotland on March 2, 2003.

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Sea rescue cruiser ship Bernhard Gruben of the DGzRS station in Hooksiel, Germany, that is used among others after a collision between two cargo ships in the North Sea.

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Dogger Bank will have 277 turbines when complete.

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Sylt is the largest of Germany’s North Frisian islands, which are located in the North Sea off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein.

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Critics say that burning the oil from Rosebank would produce the same emissions as the worlds’ 28 lowest income countries combined.

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Norwegian energy firm Equinor and its partners will inaugurate the world's largest floating offshore wind power farm on Wednesday.

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Oil giant Equinor is behind the project, but renewables still make up only a tiny fraction of its total energy production.

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FILE: An employee walks along the Total Culzean platform on the North Sea, about 45 miles (70 kilometres) east of the Aberdeen

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Britain's government says the move will improve energy security, while new carbon capture and storage projects will create tens of thousands of jobs.

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A ship works offshore in the Baltic Sea on the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany, Nov. 11, 2018

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EU Commission calls for intensified bloc-wide naval operations

Together, the 27 EU member states manage the largest maritime exclusion zone in the world.

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A general view of the Russian embassy in Stockholm.

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European leaders meet in Belgium to discuss increasing offshore wind power investment.

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A fisher boat passes wind turbines between the island Langeoog and Bensersiel at the North Sea coast in Germany, on May 15, 2019

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A banner against proposed deep-sea oil and gas exploration is placed by Greenpeace near its vessel Arctic Sunrise southwest of Crete, Greece, Monday, 30 August.

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Greenpeace activists occupy vessel carrying Shell oil platform

Activists from environmental group Greenpeace boarded a vessel contracted to Shell as it sailed in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, demanding that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant "stop drilling and start paying".

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Meet the ambassadors fighting for the rights of the North Sea.

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Ecuador and New Zealand have recognised the rights of nature. Now the Embassy of the North Sea wants the Netherlands to follow suit.

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Two energy giants are competing over the same area of North Sea floor.

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Kelp is cut from a line during a spring harvest of farm-raised seaweed.

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A visualisation of how Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station could look.

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English Channel swimmer Peter Green protests against the dumping of raw sewage into the sea, in Glasgow on November 12, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference.

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The offshore rig is set to become an oasis in the North Somerset’s coast in England.

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