Tag: Oil

By a Newsnet reporter  The Oil and Gas sectors in the North Sea and other EU waters could lose up to £8 billion as...

By Martin Kelly A report published today by Oil and Gas UK claims that the UK Economy has been adversely affected by the fiscal...

By G.A.Ponsonby  A claim by UK energy minister Charles Hendry that the independence referendum is causing uncertainty in the oil and gas industry has...

By John Jappy As a civil servant in London, and being part of the establishment, I always accepted the general view that an independent...

By G.A.Ponsonby  A bid by an unelected Tory Peer, Malcolm Sinclair, to prevent Orkney and Shetland from remaining part of an independent Scotland has...

By G.A.Ponsonby  Secret files published after the 30 year rule have revealed that the Tory government in the 1980s refused to fund a north...

The SNP’s Westminster Energy spokesperson Mike Weir has claimed that a report criticising the coalition government’s tax grab on the oil and gas sector...

By a Newsnet reporter  The SNP Leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has welcomed the publication of the 'Official History of North Sea...

By G.A.Ponsonby David Cameron has provoked outrage after appearing to describe Scots as stupid during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....

By a Newsnet reporter The SNP have welcomed findings in the Sunday Express which found that the vast majority of Scots believe that...