A nationwide drive towards clean energy and meeting the UK's net zero emissions target will "not be just" if it benefits only Chinese companies, it has been warned at Westminster.
The Greens are often cast by political rivals as being out of touch with voters in the region.
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".
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
RGU report finds political and fiscal instability is hampering the UK energy transition.
To achieve a just transition workers in traditional energy sectors such as oil and gas must see a pathway to greener employment.
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.
The announcement from PetroIneos that Scotland’s only oil refinery at Grangemouth will close by 2025 can, one hopes, be reversed and time bought.
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.
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.
Cutting support for the oil and gas industry too soon risks "plunging people into poverty", Scotland's former finance secretary, Kate Forbes, has said.
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”.
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.
The study states that the promised boom in offshore wind and renewables cannot be modelled “in the broken image of the oil industry.”
A new report has warned of the potential damage to the north-east of prematurely winding down Scotland’s oil and gas industry.
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.
The skills required for a successful North Sea energy transition are available but in very short supply, an industry expert has warned.
Scotland’s First Minister has accused critics of her government’s controversial energy strategy of not engaging with the plan properly.
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.
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has produced a new documentary aiming to shine a light on UK workers tackling the energy transition.
A trade union chief has cast doubt on the Scottish Government’s ability to orchestrate an orderly shift away from oil and gas.