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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Lots of oft-repeated talk about Scotland's oil revenues coming to an end. But far less talk about its wind power. The UK is the windiest country in Europe and Scotland has 25% of Europe's potential offshore wind and tidal resources. This could give a fillip to the nationalists when pressed on how an independent Scotland might pay its way.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/sc...plan/pages/49/ |
Scotland is far far behind England in Offshore wind, and they also have a much stronger fishing lobby, that are very anti-windfarm.
I don't think it's a silver bullet to replace oil revenues.