https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotland-could-be-clean-energy-superpower-say-labour

MORE than 69,000 new green jobs could be created as Scotland turns into a “clean energy superpower” under a Labour government, the party has claimed.

Labour controversially dropped plans for a £28 billion Green New Deal earlier this year, promising a Green Prosperity Plan instead which would invest £8.2bn, raised from windfall tax receipts on oil and gas profiteers, to form a new state-owned power company based in Scotland.

The party said boosting investment in green technologies such as wind, hydrogen and controversial carbon capture could generate as many as 53,000 jobs in Scotland, with 16,000 more being created by a drive to insulate thousands of homes which still fall below energy efficiency standards.

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Scottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater remained unconvinced, however, saying: “Labour has already dropped its flagship green transition plan before a single vote has been cast, and has refused to rip up a single Tory oil licence.

“They are betraying future generations and selling off our North Sea to fossil fuel giants.”

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotland-could-be-clean-energy-superpower-say-labour

dizzy: I am expecting Keir Starmer’s Red Tories / Labour party to fail to address the climate crisis by committing to any real green policies and instead to promote it’s flaccid GB Energy fudge to confuse and distract from the urgent need to transition from fossil fuels.