FMQs: Anas Sarwar claims Scottish seabed rights sold to wind power firms ‘with questionable human rights records’

Anas Sarwar has accused the Scottish Government of selling off the country’s seabed plots to wind farm companies with “questionable human rights records”.

The Scottish Labour leader raised issues relating to Marubeni and TotalEnergies, which won rights to develop renewables sites as part of the ScotWind project. Under the announcement, seabed lease rights were awarded to 17 offshore wind projects earlier this week.

Mr Sarwar pointed to the history of Japanese firm Marubeni, which in partnership with SSE Renewables won rights to 858sqkm of seabed in the Firth of Forth.