North-east oil workers are warming to Green way of thinking, says Patrick Harvie
The Greens are often cast by political rivals as being out of touch with voters in the region.
Just transition
Labour talks up Grangemouth skills package, but union slams ‘smoke and mirrors’
The UK government said it is "stepping up plans" to support workers at the Grangemouth refinery ahead of its closure, but a leading union has criticised the support package as "smoke and mirrors".
And we expect to make a timely just transition?
Let’s be clear about what “just transition” actually is and why it is the energy revolution now gaining momentum as the core driver of the colossal changes that human society must undergo globally, or else.
North Sea must ‘look beyond’ windfall tax to be ‘open for business’
UK energy minister Michael Shanks has urged North Sea investors to "look beyond" the government's proposed windfall tax, despite warnings the oil and gas sector is "under threat".
Norway’s just transition is on track and gathering pace
Anyone in Scotland looking at Norway’s achievements in the energy technology sector couldn’t help but wonder how another small country of around 5.5 million people has managed to create so many high value, high skill companies.
Is anxiety a health issue? Worrying about the renewables supply chain
I’m rapidly becoming immune to the disappointment I feel on an almost daily basis by the news on renewables technology development and manufacturing coming out of Europe, North America, the Far East and Australia and New Zealand, but not Scotland.
Potential challenges for the energy sector post election
By this weekend, only one poll will have mattered. The implications for the energy sector will be massive; for relative degrees of good or ill.
Tens of thousands of jobs in Scotland rest on a ‘just and fair’ energy transition – RGU
RGU report finds political and fiscal instability is hampering the UK energy transition.
‘I made the shift from North Sea oil to green energy’
To achieve a just transition workers in traditional energy sectors such as oil and gas must see a pathway to greener employment.
Opinion: Offshore sector must be at the heart of securing UK’s energy future in 2024
When GMB said the UK needs “plans not bans” for the future our energy sector we meant it, and our offshore sector must be front and centre.
So far, there are not many signs of a ‘just transition’
The announcement from PetroIneos that Scotland’s only oil refinery at Grangemouth will close by 2025 can, one hopes, be reversed and time bought.
Jobs ‘pay cut’ warning in switch from oil and gas to renewables
MSPs were given the example of an electrical technician in oil and gas earning around £20,000 more compared to the same role in offshore wind.
How north-east oil and gas workers can have a say on their futures
Holyrood wants to hear directly from oil and gas workers in the north-east as it assesses how best to manage the difficult shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy.
Forbes hits out at Just Stop Oil, saying support still needed for oil and gas
Cutting support for the oil and gas industry too soon risks "plunging people into poverty", Scotland's former finance secretary, Kate Forbes, has said.
Effective supply chains fundamental to just transition
Just a few weeks ago, the UK’s Energy Transitions Commission stated: “Rapidly scaling sustainable, diversified, and resilient clean energy supply chains is key to achieving net-zero targets on-time and at as low a cost as possible”.
“Majority” of UK workers will see no major job impacts from net zero transition
The Climate Change Committee finds that most workers will see no major impact from the UK’s drive for net zero, but “targeted intervention” is needed in Scotland and Wales.
Offshore worker report claims ‘culture of fear’ as barrier to North Sea transition
The study states that the promised boom in offshore wind and renewables cannot be modelled “in the broken image of the oil industry.”
EY report warns of dangers of hastily winding down ‘£16bn’ Scottish oil and gas industry
A new report has warned of the potential damage to the north-east of prematurely winding down Scotland’s oil and gas industry.
Poll shows Scots want to halt rush away from oil and gas
Most Scots want the government to avoid a rush to wind down oil and gas production, according to a poll which puts North Sea jobs at the centre of the SNP leadership debate.
Exiting skills body boss delivers warning but also hails ‘really positive signs’ for north-east energy transition
The skills required for a successful North Sea energy transition are available but in very short supply, an industry expert has warned.
Sturgeon: those calling energy strategy a ‘betrayal’ haven’t read it properly
Scotland’s First Minister has accused critics of her government’s controversial energy strategy of not engaging with the plan properly.
MSPs clash over jobs analysis in just transition plans
SNP and Tory politicians clashed in Holyrood on Thursday over bullish predictions of the number of jobs in renewables as part of Scotland's future energy workforce.
‘The Time is Now’: New OEUK documentary looks at offshore workforce in transition
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has produced a new documentary aiming to shine a light on UK workers tackling the energy transition.
‘Scotland is blueprint for how not to deliver a just transition’, says GMB boss
A trade union chief has cast doubt on the Scottish Government’s ability to orchestrate an orderly shift away from oil and gas.
A ‘cheap shot’, ‘ill informed’ – oil workers united in opinion of Scot Gov energy strategy
North Sea workers have had their say on Holyrood’s plan for accelerating the decline of the oil and gas industry.