First Minister, Alex Salmond speaking yesterday at the SNP conference in Perth, in his capacity as Leader of SNP, again focussed on renewable energy in Scotland in his address (read in full here) and declared:-
“We ALSO lead the world in many renewable energy technologies. Fortune magazine, the business journal, carried an article with the headline:
“Scotland rules the waves!
“We are on course to exceed our previous renewables targets, and now aim to produce 80% of our energy needs from renewables by 2020. And the story does not end there. We now know that we have the marine renewable potential to generate 10 times Scotland’s own electricity requirements from marine renewables just as at the peak of oil production we produced ten times our consumption of hydrocarbons.
“In the next few weeks our Government will be publishing a consultation paper on how Scotland and the communities of Scotland can benefit from the development of that vast renewable wealth. We all know what has happened thus far with oil and gas.
“This time round Scotland must secure the resource benefit. There are many proposals but let me tell you about just one. The crown estate commission, which controls the foreshores of Scotland, must be brought under the control of the Scottish people.
Perhaps we would rather have the proof up front instead of all his empty words this time.
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