As damning indictments go, the government-supported, Fife-based BiFab withdrawing its bid to build jackets for the government-licensed NnG wind farm project off the coast of Fife is right up there. If there is a more obvious example of a failing industrial policy, I can’t think of one. Let’s remind ourselves of the back-story. In December […]
Green Energy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce a “national mission” to “create new, green jobs across Scotland with fair pay and good conditions” when she sets out her Programme for Government today. The proposals will include a “youth guarantee” scheme as proposed by her economic advisory group report, a programme to re-train people to work in low-carbon industries, […]
‘New, green jobs’? Here’s what to keep an eye out for in the Programme for Govt
Amid the GERS hullabaloo yesterday (a good analysis of that is on Sourcehere), there was some other interesting things going on that deserve a bit more attention. First, the STUC, Scotland’s leading trade union body, have written to Alok Sharma MP and Paul Wheelhouse MSP, UK and Scottish Energy Ministers respectively, calling for an urgent bilateral […]
Why is Scotland’s green energy manufacturing industry in crisis, in a climate emergency?
There’s few clearer signs of the carnage in the global economy than US oil trading as low as -$40 a barrel, the first time in history it has ever traded negative. There’s simply too much supply in the US due to demand crashing, and therefore there’s nowhere to store them. The main delivery point in Cushing, […]