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Tory peer calls for partition in case of independence »

Conservative peer Lord Sinclair has appealed to keep Orkney and Shetland under Westminster control in the event of Scottish independence. The Earl of Caithness has tabled amendments to the Scotland Bill currently being passed through the House of Lord...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

Edinburgh firm labelled 'most dangerous oil company after BP' »

Cairn Energy 1

Greenpeace have singled out Edinburgh-based petroleum company Cairn Energy as posing the greatest threat to the environment of any deepwater offshore oil exploration firm, raising the prospect of further disruptive protests following those seen on the ...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Pierre Thistlejohn | Read more »

Whose oil is it anyway? »

Alasdair Allan

Scottish oil wealth must leave a lasting legacy for the country, and the SNP government has advanced the case for an oil fund for Scotland—similar to that in other countries who have benefitted from this natural resource. An oil fund would i...

Wed 21 Apr 2010 by Alasdair Allan | Read more »

Murphy slams SNP oil figures  »

Jim Murphy

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy reignited the debate over the Scottish oil fund this week declaring the SNP's valuation of Scottish oil an “extraordinary exaggeration.”   The fund is being demanded by the SNP who claim that the North S...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Rosalind Brown | Read more »

Napier in Hong Kong biofuel centre partnership »

Hong Kong biofuel centre partnership

A new partnership between Edinburgh Napier University and City University Hong Kong (CityU) will see the opening of the first Biofuel Research Centre in the Chinese city. The centre in Hong Kong will be a mirror of the existing facility at Edinburgh N...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Adam Bell | Read more »

SNP accuses Westminster of cutting budgets as Scottish oil revenues rise »

The Scottish National Party has lambasted the UK Government for cutting the country’s devolved budget at the same time as North Sea oil revenues look set to rise. The Scottish Executive’s budget for the coming year has been reduced by up t...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Chris Berkin | Read more »

Energy policy: Down to business »

Following an interview with Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, the Guardian journalist George Monbiot recently wrote an article accusing oil companies of trying to throw a thin, green camouflage net of insignificant expenditures in renewable energy sources...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by David Loughman | Read more »

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