FRENCH and Irish citizens are reaping the “benefit that nature bestowed” upon Scotland, an Alba MP has warned – highlighting the…
“Scotland has lost out on the former and must not do so with the latter. The bounty from the energy off our shores must benefit our people not just corporations and even state-owned companies from other lands.“The great Scottish comedian Billy Connolly penned a song Oh Sergeant Where’s Mine, describing the plight of a soldier with life-changing wounds reflecting on the prospectus the recruiting sergeant had first given him.
“Lying in his hospital bed he says: ‘Oh sergeant, is this the adventure you meant, when I put my name down on the line. All that talk of computers and sunshine and skis, oh, I'm askin' you, sergeant, where's mine?’“All that talk of the Saudi Arabia of wind and the work and the jobs, where are they? “And when other nations whether Ireland or France, Denmark, Sweden or Norway, China have a share of our natural bounty, oh minister where’s ours?"
Responding for the Government, Energy Minister Graham Stuart said: “This Government believes that using a state-owned model is not the best approach. “I am sure that if we had allowed a new state company to have come in and dominate our offshore wind sector we would never have the 70% in the cost of offshore wind that we have seen over recent years.”
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