
Oil industry lobbied Scottish Government 200+ times under Sturgeon’s ‘open door policy’ to polluters
Campaigners are calling on Humza Yousaf’s new Government to make a clean break from the old regime and fossil fuel lobbying

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Campaigners are calling on Humza Yousaf’s new Government to make a clean break from the old regime and fossil fuel lobbying

Workers, climate groups and trade unions back a new plan that would deliver a just transition away from fossil fuels to protect jobs, communities and climate.
Report: ‘Our Power: Offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition’
Scotland political briefing: ‘Our Power: Offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition’
UK political briefing: ‘Our Power: Offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition’
Demands 1-4 cover some of the nuts and bolts of transition planning: how we utilise skills that already exist in the workforce, skill-up where necessary, create new jobs and open up pathways for existing workers to move across.
Demands 5-7 focus on the working conditions in the North Sea, and what needs to change in the employment rights of workers and the legislation that governs the energy workforce.
Demands 8-10 offer the vision for an energy industry that is owned by, answerable to, and beneficial for the people working in and relying on it.