OK, time to speak out; I've had enough of the moaning that's going on in and around Aberdeen regarding renewable energy. And I'm becoming increasingly irritated at the Ministry of Defence, which has so far attempted to block 30 or so wind projects in the north-east corner and many more UK-wide.
Burntisland Fabrications is the sole surviving active offshore fabrication yard in Scotland geared up to building large structures for the oil&gas industry.
Northern Scotland's Global Energy Group predicts turnover for 2009 to leap to £170million, compared with £130million last year. The firm's chairman, Roy MacGregor, also expects to recruit another 400, mostly engineering and fabrication, personnel over the same period, which is twice the forecast of just of a few weeks ago.
