A lack of leadership by the Scottish Government could see the country lose out on billions of pounds of decommissioning work in the North Sea, with union leaders claiming it does not fit the SNP’s “political narrative” to invest in the area.
The first shipment of shale gas from fracking is to arrive in Scotland within weeks, Ineos bosses confirmed as they hit out at the Scottish Government’s “absurd” moratorium on the controversial practice.
The volume of international exports from Scotland has fallen and the value of retail sales has flat-lined, new economic data shows.
Two Scottish software firms have been given £1.9 million in Scottish Enterprise grants which have helped to secure more than 50 jobs.
MPs have called on the UK Government to clarify future support for the renewables industry amid concerns current policy is putting growth and investment at risk.
The number of failing businesses in Scotland has grown by almost a third this year, according to new insolvency figures.
Scottish independence has “some logic” from a democratic standpoint but the economic risks could transform the nation into “Greece without the sun”, according to a right-wing think tank.
For all the uncertainty Scotland faces with the cloud of Britain’s exit from the European Union, there could yet be a silver lining, according to U.K. lawmaker Mark Garnier.
Mexico’s ambassador to the UK, Diego Gomez Pickering, is visiting Scotland today to discuss business opportunities between the two nations.
Scotland's newly appointed Energy Minister is set to renewables industry for the first time since his appointment.
The Scottish Government will consider public opinion as well as science when it comes to deciding whether to allow fracking, energy minister Paul Wheelhouse has pledged.
MSPs have voted by 32 to 30, with 61 abstentions, in favour of a Scottish Government motion, amended by Labour and the Greens, calling for an outright ban on fracking and stating it and other forms of unconventional gas extraction are “incompatible” with Scotland’s low-carbon ambitions.
The Scottish Government has said it remains deeply sceptical about fracking as the Tories called on ministers to ignore the “left wing cabal” which is said to be holding back a £33 billion job-creating industry.
The Scottish Parliament is set to debate a ban on fracking as part of Holyrood land and reform debate later today.
Scottish businesses have reported a “troubling” dip in confidence in their prospects for the coming year.
Labour has renewed calls for an outright ban on fracking in Scotland ahead of a Holyrood debate on the environment.
A consortium of developers led by SSE have committed the final investment decision for the 588MW 84-turbine Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland.
A jump in wind power led to turbines producing enough electricity to meet the needs of more than three-quarters of Scottish households in April, new figures reveal.
A split within the Liberal Democrats on fracking has been further exposed after former chief whip Mike Rumbles said he was in favour of lifting an SNP moratorium on the practice.
Two Chinese companies which have signed a multibillion-pound investment agreement with the Scottish Government will not be put off by political criticism of the talks, the UK adviser to one of the firms has said.
Nicola Sturgeon has said she was “not aware” of allegations of corruption against the parent company of a Chinese firm she has signed an investment agreement with.
One of the companies involved in an investment agreement with the Scottish Government is owned by a firm which was blacklisted by Norway’s oil fund because there was an “unacceptable risk that the company is involved in gross corruption”, it has emerged.
Doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030 is feasible, but only with concerted action to jump-start their use in transport, building and industry. Bioenergy is seen as being a critical component to achieving this objective. And if it is, then the sector could “sustain 24.4million jobs worldwide” just 15 years from now.
A Scottish logistics group will pay more than £2million in fines after an illegal bribery operations was discovered in its own organisation.
INEOS said it still expects fracking to be given the go-ahead in Scotland.