Failure to support the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields will only leave us more reliant on costly imports and mean thousands of workers in the North East miss out on new job opportunities.
Scottish Parliament debate on oil and gas projects
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It doesn't, it leaves us importing more while sacrificing investment, jobs, tax revenues and the industrial capabilities of the north-east on the altar of ill-informed, dogmatic virtue signalling.
Offshore wind has a role to play in Scotland’s energy system, but the SNP cannot put all their eggs in this basket and then not deliver the investment required.
You have to reduce the demand before you can realistically start talking about where you're sourcing it from.
The case against refusing Jackdaw and Rosebank asks us to believe that refusing British production somehow removes the demand for oil and gas.
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