SNP coalition with Greens 'could be destroyed if next FM backslides on North Sea oil and gas'
Patrick Harvie has signalled the Greens could quit their coalition deal with the SNP if the next first minister backslides on opposing new oil and gas drilling.
And in the Scottish Government’s new draft Energy Strategy, published this year, it proposes a “presumption against” new North Sea developments - although licensing is ultimately reserved to Westminster. Harvie’s party signed the Bute House power-sharing agreement with the Nats in 2021 and claims credit for shifting Sturgeon away from a stance backing “maximum extraction” of North Sea oil.
“We should be winding down and revoking some of the undeveloped fields that have been granted licences but not yet in production.”
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