Climate crisis

Expertise in marine engineering built up in the North Sea oil and gas industry could help create a world-leading marine renewables industry (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

SNP warned oil and gas slump driving wind investment out of Scotland

Winter is on its way.

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SNP MSP Jack Middleton

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Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer

Ross Greer: Why the Greens are taking votes from the SNP over climate

UK Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is reportedly poised to reject the Rosebank oil project

Labour urged to approve Rosebank 'by Christmas' amid climate concerns

The Jackdaw gas project has been approved by the UK government

Jackdaw bosses' Tornado gas hopes as more North Sea projects planned

The Jackdaw gas project has been approved by the UK government

Explainer Jackdaw: what does it mean for business, you and energy prices

Andy Burnham and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh

Analysis Jackdaw approval cannot be distraction from crisis facing North Sea

The Jackdaw gas field has been given the go ahead

Jackdaw gas field set to be approved by UK Labour government

Exclusive Minister under pressure after failing to commit to new drilling

SNP 'put to bed' presumption against oil after energy tax split

SNP leader John Swinney as his party braces to debate its position on North Sea oil and gas

Exclusive SNP told to give 'full-throated support' to drilling amid oil split

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has spoken about Russian interference (Christopher Furlong/PA)

Analysis Burnham faces crucial test that will define leadership in Scotland

Exclusive The five North Sea projects waiting in pipeline if Jackdaw approved

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive GB Energy to continue investment in Scotland's floating wind projects

Exclusive Stalled wind projects risk leaving Scottish ports as 'stranded assets'

First Minister John Swinney could face more ScotWind developers relinquishing their contracts

Analysis SNP needs ScotWind reality check to restore investor confidence

Equinor, which owns and operates the pioneering Hywind scheme, is bidding to build new floating wind turbines off the Scottish coast as part of the Scottish Government's plans to increase the amount of wind energy generated offshore. Picture: Michal Wachucik

Exclusive £50bn floating wind industry in crisis talks as contracts cull awaited

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive 'Window closing' for Scotland to lead world on floating offshore wind

Anders Opedal, president of Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor, has warned bills are likely to stay high (Picture: Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)

Equinor boss questions UK investment if North Sea drilling is denied

The UK Labour government has been warned this month's Budget is 'pivotal' for the North Sea oil and gas sector

Exclusive Call for UK Budget to hand North Sea oil and gas an investment future

The UK government is being urged to do more to protect North Sea jobs

Scotland risks losing thousands more North Sea workers, report warns

Torness Nuclear Power Station.

Exclusive UK minister calls for SNP nuclear power talks amid new reactor hopes

MSPs have backed calls to pause AI data centre decisions until planning guidance has been published by the Scottish government

MSPs back AI data centre planning decision pause ahead of new guidance

Andy Burnham is under pressure to unlock the North Sea oil and gas sector for investment

Andy Burnham told to unlock 111 North Sea projects with Budget pivot

Reports suggest Jackdaw could be approved this month

Supply chain firms urge UK government to give green light to Jackdaw

An Aedes cantans mosquito caught by the Mosquito Scotland team in a forest in Scotland

Exclusive Why Scotland should prepare for more tropical, mosquito-borne diseases

Expertise in marine engineering built up in the North Sea oil and gas industry could help create a world-leading marine renewables industry (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

SNP call for UK oil funds to bankroll Scotland's renewables sector

First Minister John Swinney has fired the starting gun on reshaping Scotland's public services

Scotland's environment quangos: Merger will require 'upfront costs'

Construction work taking place on the sister Moray West offshore wind project.

Exclusive Warning over reliance on China for crucial wind turbine magnets

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive Warning as SNP's flagship North Sea floating wind projects stall

Sturgeon: I was not even considered for prosecution in police probe

Electricity bills do not reflect the relatively cheap cost of energy produced by windfarms like Whitelees, near Eaglesham (Picture: Andrew Milligan)

SNP 'keeping communities in the dark' over onshore wind future

Opponents of the data centres fear they could have a ‘disastrous’ impact on both local communities and the environment (Yui Mok/PA)

SNP 'falling short' of AI data centre pause as plans to be monitored

Environmental activists fear the impact that extracting fossil fuels from the UK's largest remaining untapped oil field - which lies about 80 miles west of Shetland - would have on climate change.

Musicians including Bobbie Gillespie urge Burnham to reject Rosebank

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Minister John Swinney met in Glasgow

Swinney 'irresponsible' for urging Burnham to rethink Ming Yang block

Ming Yang announced plans to build the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility in Ardersier near Inverness (PA)

Exclusive Swinney pressures Burnham on blocked Ming Yang wind factory

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon urges SNP not to shift on North Sea oil and gas

Andy Burnham

Burnham 'will take more pragmatic approach' to North Sea oil and gas

Disused North Sea oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a downturn in the sector in 2018

SNP MSP breaks ranks with Swinney over Rosebank and Jackdaw approval

Lorna Slater is seeking re-election to her role alongside MSPs Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay.

Lorna Slater says Green deal with SNP 'difficult'

Ed Miliband is expected to announce the decoupling of gas and electricity prices

Miliband is warned of ‘untold damage’ in clean energy drive

Swinney under fire from Greens over 'disastrous' oil and gas shift

Exclusive Labour government blocks Chinese wind factory plans for Highlands

The SNP government will not publish an energy strategy until after May's election, despite a full document not being updated since 2017

Analysis SNP's climate, oil and gas fence-sitting is easy pre-election option

Expertise in marine engineering built up in the North Sea oil and gas industry could help create a world-leading marine renewables industry (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

Exclusive UK energy transition 'lagging behind global rivals' amid North Sea row

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