PM warned Rosebank oil field could breach West Bank sanctions
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A long-awaited decision on the Rosebank oil field is expected soon The prime minister has been warned that approving a controversial oil field risks contravening his own sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
关于罗斯班克油田的期待已久的决定预计很快就会出台 总理被警告说，批准一个有争议的油田可能会违反他对约旦河西岸非法以色列定居点的制裁。
The government will soon have to make a long-awaited decision on whether to go ahead with Rosebank, Britain's largest untapped oil field, which sits off Shetland.
政府很快将不得不就是否继续开发位于设得兰群岛附近的英国最大的未开发油田罗斯班克做出期待已久的决定。
Environmental campaigners and Green Party leader Zack Polanski have both separately written to Andy Burnham and the foreign secretary to raise concerns about Rosebank's links to an Israeli company, Delek Group.
环保人士和绿党领袖扎克·波兰斯基均分别写信给安迪·伯纳姆和外交大臣，对罗斯班克与以色列公司德勒克集团的联系表示担忧。
Last year Delek Group was included in a UN database of firms which allegedly provide services or utilities to support settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
去年，德勒克集团被列入联合国数据库，该数据库据称为支持巴勒斯坦被占领土上的定居点提供服务或公用事业。
A spokesman for the company told the Daily Telegraph, external it no longer had any involvement in Israeli settlements and was wrongly included in the database.
该公司发言人告诉《每日电讯报》，对外，该公司不再参与以色列定居点，并被错误地纳入数据库。
Delek Group controls Ithaca Energy, which holds a 20% stake in Rosebank.
Delek集团控制着伊萨卡能源公司，后者持有罗斯班克20%的股份。
The campaign group Uplift, whose legal challenge against the Rosebank project in 2023 led to the ongoing delay over a decision on exploration, has helped organise a letter to Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.
Uplift 运动组织曾帮助组织了一封致伯纳姆和外交大臣埃德·米利班德的信，该组织于 2023 年对罗斯班克项目提出法律挑战，导致勘探决定持续拖延。
In a letter seen by BBC News, campaigners from Stop Rosebank and Greenpeace, with assistance from Uplift, have asked the government to clarify whether Delek will fall foul of the sanctions announced last month.
在 BBC 新闻看到的一封信中，Stop Rosebank 和绿色和平组织的活动人士在 Uplift 的协助下，要求政府澄清德勒是否会违反上个月宣布的制裁措施。
Separately, Polanski has also written to Miliband, asking what steps the government would take to make sure revenue from UK oil and gas production did not finance illegal settlements.
另外，波兰斯基还写信给米利班德，询问政府将采取哪些措施来确保英国石油和天然气生产的收入不会资助非法定居点。
He said: "Rosebank is a test of whether Labour's proposed sanctions regime is fit for purpose.
他说：“罗斯班克是对工党提议的制裁制度是否符合目的的一次考验。
"Companies blacklisted by the UN for operating in the illegal settlements should not be financed by oil and gas revenues from the North Sea."
“因在非法定居点经营而被联合国列入黑名单的公司不应由北海的石油和天然气收入提供资金。”
What is happening with the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields?
Rosebank 和 Jackdaw 油气田发生了什么？
UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements prompting furious Israeli response Last month, Miliband signalled a hardening of the UK's position when he announced action against companies and individuals who provide services such as infrastructure to settlement expansion.
英国宣布对约旦河西岸定居点实施制裁，引发以色列强烈反应 上个月，米利班德宣布对为定居点扩张提供基础设施等服务的公司和个人采取行动，这标志着英国立场的强硬。
The UK sanctions will also ban imports of goods from illegal settlements.
英国的制裁还将禁止从非法定居点进口货物。
In its letter to Burnham, Uplift asked him to "confirm, unequivocally, whether Delek will be caught by the new planned measures".
Uplift 在给伯纳姆的信中要求他“明确确认德勒克是否会受到新计划措施的影响”。
They added: "If it is not, please explain how that is consistent with the government's stated intent to sanction those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements?"
他们补充道：“如果不是，请解释这与政府所宣称的制裁那些资助或协助非法定居点的人的意图是否一致？”
A spokesperson for Ithaca Energy told the BBC: "Ithaca Energy is a London Stock Exchange listed company which is a member of the FTSE 100, and which is governed by the highest standards of corporate governance.
伊萨卡能源公司的一位发言人告诉英国广播公司：“伊萨卡能源公司是一家伦敦证券交易所上市公司，是富时 100 指数的成员，并受到最高标准的公司治理管理。
"Ithaca is one of the biggest investors in the North Sea and Scotland, is a responsible employer and is a major contributor to both the UK Treasury through tax payments and to the UK's energy security."
“伊萨卡是北海和苏格兰最大的投资者之一，是负责任的雇主，是英国财政部纳税和英国能源安全的主要贡献者。”
A spokesman for Delek Group told the Telegraph: "Delek Group has been wrongly included in the UN database.
德勒集团的发言人告诉《每日电讯报》：“德勒集团被错误地纳入联合国数据库。
"Together with our legal advisers, we intend to formally challenge this and request the immediate removal of our name from the UN database."
“我们打算与我们的法律顾问一起正式质疑这一点，并要求立即从联合国数据库中删除我们的名字。”
The question of whether to approve Rosebank, as well as the Jackdaw gas field east of Aberdeen, has become hugely politically significant.
是否批准罗斯班克以及阿伯丁以东的寒鸦气田的问题已经变得具有巨大的政治意义。
Rosebank was approved by the previous Conservative government in 2023, but that decision was successfully challenged in the courts by campaigners including Uplift.
Rosebank 于 2023 年获得上届保守党政府的批准，但这一决定在法庭上遭到包括 Uplift 在内的活动人士的成功挑战。
The decision now lies with the Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, but will be seen as an important indication of Burnham's wider thinking on oil and gas.
该决定现在由能源部长 Miatta Fahnbulleh 做出，但这将被视为伯纳姆对石油和天然气更广泛思考的重要标志。
Miliband was widely thought to have been opposed to Rosebank when he served as Sir Keir Starmer's energy secretary.
人们普遍认为米利班德在担任凯尔·斯塔默爵士的能源部长时反对罗斯班克。
Burnham has spoken repeatedly of the need for a "flexible" approach to energy and is believed to be in favour of drilling more where licenses already exist in the North Sea.
伯纳姆多次表示需要采取“灵活”的能源方法，并据信支持在北海已有许可证的地方进行更多钻探。
The decision could also have implications for the relationship between the UK and the US.
该决定也可能对英国和美国之间的关系产生影响。
President Trump has placed pressure on successive UK prime ministers to drill more in the North Sea.
特朗普总统向历任英国首相施加压力，要求其在北海进行更多钻探。
While Downing Street is relieved that Trump has not lashed out at the government's recent West Bank sanctions, his administration has said the US will not take the same course of action. Tessa Khan, executive director at Uplift, said "not one penny of North Sea oil profits" should go to a company which "itself now risks being sanctioned by the UK".
虽然唐宁街因特朗普没有猛烈抨击政府最近对约旦河西岸的制裁而松了一口气，但他的政府表示美国不会采取同样的行动。 Uplift执行董事泰莎·汗(Tessa Khan)表示，“北海石油利润中的一分钱”都不应该流向一家“本身就有受到英国制裁风险”的公司。
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war.
自 1967 年中东战争期间占领约旦河西岸和东耶路撒冷以来，以色列已建造了约 160 个定居点，容纳了 70 万犹太人。
An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.
据估计，有 330 万巴勒斯坦人与他们生活在一起。
Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in recent months. Israel has criticised the UK sanctions, accusing the government of "anti-Israel policies".
根据国际法，定居点是非法的，近几个月来，定居者对西岸巴勒斯坦人的暴力行为有所增加。 以色列批评英国的制裁，指责政府采取“反以色列政策”。
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