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I thought Scotland DID have a large oil sector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil https://en.wikipedia.o
by lizknope 6y ago
I thought Scotland DID have a large oil sector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil
You can argue whether it is Scotland's or the UK's but I live in the US and it is up to Scotland and the UK to sort out independence and their place in the EU.
- batpangolin 6y agoYes, in fact the 'jobs split' between Scotland and England is probably more in Scotland's favor than any putative split of the oilfields after Scottish independence would be. There is a concentration of oil infrastructure in Scotland and oilfields which would be in English territorial waters are serviced from Scotland.
- jariel 6y agoThey did, but according to their stats Scotland has 100K people 'dependent' on the sector, Alberta alone has 400K. Alberta is 4.5M pop. Scotland is 5.5M. Alberta will unfortunately not be able to turn those Oilsands dredgers into windmills. The windmills will probably be made and installed by totally unrelated entities. If I were the King of Alberta I would play all my cards on some kind of carbon capture tech because it's not entirely infeasible. Maybe not for cars, but for installed engines and there will be plenty of demand for fuel if it can be used without CO2 emissions especially.