@OnThe7thDay1 The price of offshore wind increased by about 75% between Allocation Round 4 in 2022 and Allocation Round 7 this year.
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Sam Taylor
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Sam Taylor
@staylorish
Runs @These_Islands. “cannot stand the awesome reality of Scotland’s energy wealth” - Alex Salmond. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Ekim 2016
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@staylorish Well , I know the cost of gas increased by a third today .
Im unaware that wind increased in price ( ever ).
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Oddly, if you submit an FOI request asking the Scottish Government for evidence that Scotland’s renewables are low-cost, or even just to identify a single low-cost generation asset, they have absolutely nothing. Because Swinney’s rhetoric is simply not true.
John Swinney@JohnSwinney
Scotland produces huge amounts of renewable energy, but the UK's broken energy system means people's bills are through the roof. Scotland's energy should work for the benefit of people, not Westminster. On May 7th, vote SNP for the fresh start of independence, with lower bills.
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@jollyman56 From there, you get blackouts in Scotland when the wind doesn’t blow.
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@staylorish It is true...prove me wrong. Imagine an independent Scotland having only its own grid. Not one connected to or any part of the current UK wide grid. Go from there...
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@OnThe7thDay1 If you don’t know how to calculate that yourself, why are you even debating this stuff?
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Always very entertaining to see John Swinney boast about the verdict given to his government by the credit rating agencies.
A verdict that, as he declines to point out, is *conditional on Scotland being a part of the United Kingdom*.
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Since Stephen Flynn is complaining about a lack of support for North Sea oil & gas from the UK Government, a reminder of his own party’s rhetoric…
Sam Taylor@staylorish
1/ At FMQs yesterday, John Swinney once again made a statement which is obviously false. He said the UK Gov is “sanctioning 100 new oil & gas licences without any questions being asked”. In fact, those licences are being awarded via a process which looks just like SNP policy…
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This is good pragmatic stuff. And we badly need more pragmatism in the energy debate.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
📽️ From Donald Trump to Britain's wind power trade body, there's a growing coalition calling for more drilling in the North Sea. Raising the question: if we DID encourage more exploration, how much oil & gas could we actually get? Our MEGA primer on the North Sea👇 Ps it's longer than usual, but it turns out this topic has SO MANY misconceptions. Time to put some of them right. Let me know what you think
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Good morning. My Twitter/X account got hacked - please don’t click on any link sent to you via DM, and I am not a recent convert to the wonders of cryptocurrency…
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@Worldcuptour @ForWomenScot @WingsScotland #orscontributions_M1870E432P768C2384170" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">parliament.scot/chamber-and-co…
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Hi all.
@ForWomenScot or @WingsScotland might be the best people to ask.
I'm looking for the exact quote by Maggie Chapman when she said something along the lines of "nobody has ever pretended to be someone they are not in order to access victims"
Thank you in advance.
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@David_Jamieson7 @ScotNational Nobody is obliged to have firm opinions on absolutely everything.
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@staylorish @ScotNational Seems like a way to do politics on easy mode. You live in a country facing calamity and decline, but reserve yourself to criticism of the critics?
If you want to defend the establishment, do so. If you know they are wrong, criticise. Show us how it’s done right.
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Aaron Bastani tells @ScotNational that because the Iranian revolution was very popular in 1979, Iranians clearly don’t know what’s good for them, so Iranian opposition voices today should not be listened to.
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@OnThe7thDay1 @ScotNational I did say I was sticking my neck out. I don’t know for sure that Iranian politics is very different to Scottish politics. I’m speaking on the basis of a hunch. No more.
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@staylorish @ScotNational Your expertise has evolved in 24 hours , from profits on renewable energy to the Iranian Constitution.
You should move there and do FOIs on their government.
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@David_Jamieson7 @ScotNational I’m poking fun at Aaron Bastani’s facile analysis of a complex situation. I’m hardly then going to provide my own facile analysis, am I?
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@staylorish @ScotNational You haven’t. You can support or oppose something you think is ill conceived.
I suspect you don’t want to answer because of the questions that follow. If you do oppose this war, where is your commentary on the assistance the UK is giving to it?
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@OnThe7thDay1 @ScotNational I’m going to stick my neck out and say that the politics of Iran and the politics of Scotland are quite different.
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@staylorish @ScotNational Now put that into context with Scottish Nationalism and British Imperialism
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@David_Jamieson7 @ScotNational One can take the piss out of Aaron Bastani without supporting Donald Trump.
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@staylorish @ScotNational Do you support the present war against Iran?
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The SNP has introduced planning rules penalising applications which could encourage tourism. Sounds like a joke, but apparently isn’t.
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