It's Scotland’s oil - keep it in the soil
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Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
Cambo is going ahead, thankfully.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yes, I heard recently that a good number of people in Aberdeen who were previously working on the project but had been laid-off were being re-hired.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Do you have an opinion?
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
I fully appreciate the dangers of climate change, only the thickest of the thick could deny it. Storms that we didn't even see annually are marching in one after another.
Energy sources that do not emit carbon are vital, however, they are not here yet, and until they are, we still need heat, light and food. In the short(ish) term we are reliant to a huge extent on natural gas, both for domestic heating and cooking and electricity generation. The madman in Russia has really made it necessary to ensure that he have gas that is under our control, not his.
The Scottish government's perverse approach to this is engendered by the 'bought in' majority. Two ministerial posts suddenly created for the Greens. Tell me again that the SNP are not corrupt to their core? To buy a majority by creating ministerial posts is shamelessly and utterly corrupt.
Ĝasper
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Yeah, it's the wrong decision. This is a UK / commercial decision, and what they should do instead is emulate Scotland (who don't go far enough at all) and invest majorly in renewables, which are unaffected by 'the madman in Russia' .
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
A while back we took a run to the Ayrshire coast. Beautiful day, frosty and absolutely calm. We counted 93 turbines, all not moving. Only the thickest of the thick would depend on wind as much as the idiotic Harvey and his band of clowns wishes to do.
Ĝasper
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If its a calm non windy day maybe the weather was no good. You're showing your own ignorance talking about wind dependency. There are numerous forms of generating renewable energy. Only the thickest of the thick would depend on environmentally unsustainable, extractive sources of energy.
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
<Yawn>.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
The problem with much of the current generation of Scottish wind farms is that they were funded on the options system by power companies down south in order to avoid carbon offset penalties in England and Wales, so with that being achieved, there was little incentive to actually produce electricity.
There is a report I've linked here before where the Scottish Government accepted that a significant percentage of them would never provide any meaningful green energy contribution. Next generation may be better though and other forms of alternative generation can indeed provide a much better option, although at maybe a higher initial cost, which may be less attractive to the fine-avoiders.
Ĝasper
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The thread title is wrong - oil is formed in rock strata deep underground, and isn't normally found in the soil.
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