Scottish oil industry sheds 1000s more jobs than gained by renewables
By Paul Homewood
Nice one Nicola!
Scotland’s oil and gas industry is estimated to have lost tens of thousands of jobs more jobs than has been gained from renewables in the nation’s green revolution over a decade leading to grave disquiet over how the nation’s energy economy is being handled, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.
The oil and gas industry in Scotland has shed nearly 40% of its jobs amounting to 50,000 in Scotland over a decade, according to industry figures – while the number gained from low carbon enterprises has risen by just 2,500.
It has raised serious concerns over promises from the Scottish Government that the just transition from fossil fuel production to low carbon "means an opportunity to protect, build and create jobs".
The Scottish oil and gas jobs loss has come despite the UK Government pressing ahead with new licensing for fossil fuels projects.
Ministers have now been accused by unions of mismanaging Scotland’s energy sector and of having "no credible plan" for the future while the green jobs revolution is being described as "remaining a myth".
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The British government are leaders in developing ‘green jobs’ …
In China & India !!
& most of the ‘green’ subsidies are given to foreign companies & governments.
But, we are winning the race to the bottom as CO2 rises.
Don’t like to say I told you so … but I did, 15 years ago
I think it is a three way battle between us, Germany and Australia to reach the bottom.
I don’t think this is fair, at all.
All the evidence is that the Uighyer slaves are working flat out. Even the Han slave drivers are under pressure, not to mention Chinese coal miners and thermal power station workers.
Anybody with just one living brain cell saw this outcome to the ludicrous green energy jobs promise. Heaven help us if Milliband gets his hands on this county’s energy policy.
Anybody else see the problem?
Central planning failure 231,987,249,052, aw hell ∞.
There are few indigenous ‘green’ jobs – all the net zero tat is bought in from overseas and most installers use overseas labour – its a con
Just even seeing that picture of the Lunatic ” Lassie” triggers me nowadays … all those idiots being voted in by the idiotic “Townie” folk … Sorry to some – but seems to be the way of it: Just have no idea bout how things function outside or Beyond the King street / Union Street areas of the “City” s. Rural High St. and the hinterland is suffering greatly: Catering for the Night Life and Tourists, more so than the worker in a hurry.
Perfect SNP maths, lose 50,000 jobs and get 2,500 in exchange. Just why do sensible Scots keep voting in these incompetents?
Why? Quasi-racist resentment against the English.
Note that the southern counties, where people routinely meet English men and women, voted against independence.
Indeed, all the truly Scottish bits of Scotland voted against independence. Only the highly Irish bits of Scotland, parts of Dundee and the Glasgow conurbation, voted for.
The solution is clearly for those bits to be kicked out of the UK to form the Republic of Alba. Bugger’em.
And why do English taxpayers have to keep bailing them out?
The Barnett Formula, another cunning stunt by a fiscally ignorant Labour government intent on bolstering its popularity in the devolved nations, and at the same time getting the English to pick up the tab
the just transition from fossil fuel production to low carbon
The what? Nothing *just* about depriving citizens of access to affordable and reliable energy sources.
There may be a good lesson in this story. Trade Union leaders can have far more effect than Paul Homewood’s disciples in convincing our dim-wit leaders to go in reverse.
Any proposal that is justified by “more jobs” is guaranteed to be a bad use of taxpayer money. Jobs are a cost, not a benefit.
Jobs are a cost. The aim of all production is to serve consumer interests, at least cost, not to create jobs at the expense of consumers.
New technology, new capital destroys old, but reallocates resources to create new jobs and more capital: creative destruction – Joseph Schumpeter.
Without this there would be no progress.
Power looms destroyed many jobs – see Luddites – but resulted in the creation of many more jobs throughout the economy. The introduction of steam propulsion on ships destroyed many jobs on board ships no longer needed to hoist sails; containerisation destroyed thousands of jobs in ports loading and unloading ships – but steam ships and later containerisation created many more new jobs.
Green tech does not create new jobs, it just replaces old ones, nor does it create new capital, it just consumes it. In fact Green tech isn’t even new tech – electric motors, batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, reverse air-con units are not new tech, it is all old tech mostly replaced by other technology which worked better. Green tech is regress not progress and this is why all these Green projects need subsidies and ultimately fail.