Equinor seeks High Court fight with Norfolk fishermen

British fishermen 'bullied' out of ancestral waters by Norwegian wind company – 'Just diabolical!'

British fishermen have been forced to leave their traditional fishing grounds for a fortnight by a Norwegian wind company.A High Court ruling has affected 21 fishermen along the Norfolk coast as the Norwegian energy company Equinor conducts surveys for wind farm cable routes.The fishermen, whose families have worked these waters across multiple generations, discovered last Friday that legal action had been taken against them upon arriving at the…

Equinor seeks High Court fight with Norfolk fishermen

A group of Norfolk fishermen are facing a High Court showdown today with an offshore energy company trying to force them out of waters where their families have fished for generations. Equinor, the Norwegian firm behind the Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon wind farms, wants the court to order them to stay out of an area off the county coast so it can carry out a four week survey. The fishermen learned of the legal action when they went to their . . .