“We should be in no doubt that achieving the transition to a zero carbon world ultimately means completely eliminating three major industries – coal, oil and gas.”
Renewables
“The renewables failure is purely a result of horrendously bad policy decisions and the cause of the failure is an obsession with inward investment. Inward investment is what is destroying our industrial base.”
Robin McAlpine: The renewable jobs failure is the disaster of our era, and inward investment is the problem
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?
“The central green commitment of the Scottish Government’s economic recovery plan is an auction block of Scotland’s resources in the form of a Green Investment Portfolio.”
Analysis: The ‘Zealots’ and the Great Scottish Green Energy Auction
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, […]