Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 2 November 2023.
Martin Whitfield
Labour
I am very grateful for that answer, but the Scottish Trades Union Congress has previously slammed the Government’s strategy for failing to outline even the basic steps to ensure a just transition, particularly for offshore oil and gas workers. We have had promise after promise about Saudi Arabia’s renewables and the 120,000 green jobs by 2020, all of which have failed to happen.
More significantly, the Scottish Government has also failed to deliver a renewables supply chain of jobs here, in Scotland, or the publicly owned energy generation company that was promised back in 2017. After that, why should Scotland’s energy industry have any faith in this lacklustre Government to secure Scotland’s energy needs and create a smooth transition to net zero?