Greenpeace has lost a legal bid to have the UK Government’s decision to allow BP to drill for oil at a field in the North Sea overturned. The environmental campaign group took legal action at the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest civil court, calling for BP’s permit to drill the Vorlich field in 2018 to be revoked. Following a two-day hearing last month, Lord Carloway, the Lord President, has rejected the group’s claims. The oil field cost £230 million ($312 million) to develop and has now been operating for around nine months. Ceasing production would have cost around £5 million ($6.8 million) a month. Greenpeace argued a “myriad of failures” in the public consultation exercise meant it was deprived of the opportunity to comment on the application for consent, and of a “clear, timely process for challenging the decisions.” In his written judgment, Lord Carloway rejected these arguments, saying they …