ALBA Party Leader, Alex Salmond on establishing a Scottish National Renewables Corporation
Former First Minister and ALBA Party Leader, Alex Salmond's statement on establishing a Scottish National Renewables Corporation to ensure the benefits of Scotland's immense resources flow to the Scottish people.
"What Scotland requires is a Scottish National Renewables Corporation (SNRC) allocated a public share in every offshore wind, and other major renewable project, as a licence condition.
SNRC can then enter the market for production and supply as People’s Energy Scotland, to ensure that the benefits from these immense resources flow to the Scottish people.
In his speech, Keir Starmer was being economical with the history when he claimed the Tories had wasted Scotland’s Oil resources. Labour Governments wasted their full share as well!
Nor did the Blair/Brown Governments show any inclination to reverse the Tory privatisations of BNOC, the National Grid, the CEGB, SSEB or the Hydro Board.
The billion-pound giveaway of the Scotwind auction allowed by the Scottish Government earlier this year, should now be urgently revised to provide for a public share and the establishment of SNRC.
For lessons on how to handle great natural resources for public benefit, Scotland should not look south to London but across the North Sea to Oslo."
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— Alex Salmond (@AlexSalmond) September 27, 2022
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