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Torness nuclear power station

Scotland globally isolated on nuclear power, as Torness visit looms

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive North Sea boss warns 'polarised' oil debate putting jobs at risk

Shell and Scottish Power are bringing forward the MarramWind proposals

Exclusive Crunch talks as Acorn project and wind chiefs to wrestle over seabed

The Grangemouth complex is one of the biggest single sources of climate-harming greenhouse gases in Scotland, belching out around three million tonnes of emissions each year

SNP will 'not ask the impossible' as weakened climate aims revealed

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

North Sea oil and gas fields could be approved under new guidelines

Exclusive SNP accused of secrecy over £2m Grangemouth carbon capture study

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Keir Starmer and Donald Trump. Picture: Carl Court - Pool/Getty Images

Keir Starmer warned over 'dangerous' Trump demand to U-turn on oil ban

Oil and gas workers in the North East and Aberdeen are poised for an ‘unjust transition’. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

North Sea oil and gas workers braced for 'harmful' impact

The Grangemouth complex is one of the biggest single sources of climate-harming greenhouse gases in Scotland, belching out around three million tonnes of emissions each year

SNP told more heat pumps must be installed 'rapidly' in homes

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

Exclusive Energy minister sparks fears of Cabinet row over low-carbon cash

Nicolas Cage in The Surfer

Film reviews: The Surfer | Ocean with David Attenborough

John Swinney's programme for government will be outlined tomorrow (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

John Swinney vows to unveil 'radical' Programme for Government

St John's Road, Corstorphine is regularly named as one of Scotland's worst-polluted streets (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor)

Figures show Scotland failed to use pandemic as climate turning point

The public will no longer face legal requirements to replace gas boilers

SNP scraps gas boiler ban amid fears heat pump push 'burdening' public

George MacKay stars in The End, a post-apocalypse musical film also starring Tilda Swinton. With thanks to the Dakota Hotel, Glasgow.

Why Sunshine on Leith actor George MacKay sings about climate crisis

Swinney told to publish boiler ban plan amid 'damaging' business fears

Energy Security Ed Miliband, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Port of Greenock

Anas Sarwar raises potential split with UK Labour over oil future

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay

Exclusive Russell Findlay accused of 'dismantling Davidson era' to mimic Reform

Kemi Badenoch and Russell Findlay

Exclusive Russell Findlay claims SNP ministers should review net zero target

Solar panels on the roof of a property

Exclusive Solar panels on newbuilds 'wasting the sun', Scottish firm warns

Better manure management and selective breeding of livestock could reduce methane emissions from agriculture (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

How a day of reckoning is coming for Scottish farm businesses Seamus Murphy

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

Labour's North Sea plan to create new energy jobs despite oil decline

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Concerns have been raised over ‘monster pylons’ across the Scottish countryside as renewables are scaled up

SNP warned over 'monster pylons' across countryside

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive Rosebank partnership probed by regulator over Palestine human rights

Scots could face more drastic restrictions on transport and heating emissions to keep a legal net zero target on track PIC: Lisa Ferguson.

Scots could face more drastic transport rules amid 2045 net zero fears

John Swinney tours the Harland and Wolff Methil yard site (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Analysis Swinney's energy fury is distraction from SNP's climate failures

A heat pump

Exclusive Heat pump funding scheme in Scotland 'not fit for purpose'

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive Rosebank approval poised to open floodgates to 13 North Sea projects

Keir Starmer’s government faces a clash of ideologies between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband

Labour gives oil licences vow as Reeves set for Rosebank clash

Police officers remove a climate activist protesting against the Rosebank oil field project in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, outside the InterContinental London Park Lane in London in October. Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas permissions scrapped by courts

The proposed new facility would be build near the existing Peterhead power station

Exclusive SSE 'shamed' into re-examining climate risk of gas power station plans

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas firms

BP job losses 'proof SNP and Labour turning backs on oil and industry'

Increased windfall taxes on the UK's offshore oil and gas industries would cost the sector about £13 billion over the next five years and lead to a fall in tax receipts, a trade body has warned. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

John Swinney urged to give 'full-throated support' to oil and gas

Donald Trump arrived on the Isle of Lewis during his visit in 2008 in a private jet

SNP urged to tax 'lavish lifestyles' of the super-rich

Scotland could suffer an annual mean temperature change of up to -2.4°C in ‘an idealised future CO2 doubling scenario in which the AMOC has fully collapsed’.

'Cold blob' could cause 'very serious problems' for Scotland's climate

The Berwick Bank wind farm will have up to 307 turbines standing around 355m tall at their highest point -- the height has been raised to give greater clearance between blade tips and sea level to help avoid collisions with seabirds as they hunt for food, while a ban on sandeel fishing is also being proposed as part of the development to boost food supplies for the likes of puffins and kittiwakes

Exclusive SNP 'holding back Scotland's renewables boom' as delays revealed

SNP Leader John Swinney (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Exclusive The four SNP climate failures campaigners want rectified in 2025

A golden eagle has been killed by a wind turbine in the south of Scotland

Golden eagle killed by wind turbine strike

The UK's North Sea oil and gas industry is a mature one that is having to grapple with decommissioning and transition.

Scottish bishops call on SNP to back oil and gas 'rapid transition'

The Grangemouth oil refinery is to close with the loss of hundreds of jobs as the UK Government strives to achieve its net-zero goals (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Why Petroineos is blaming SNP and Labour's policies for 400 job losses
The Scottish and UK governments have been blamed for pursuing a ban on new petrol and diesel cars for forcing Petroineos to close its Grangemouth oil refinery, ...

SNP acting net zero and energy secretary Gillian Martin

Exclusive SNP to set out 'Trump proof' climate finance 'leadership role'

The COP29 climate conference has started in Baku, Azerbaijan

Exclusive SNP minister to warn COP29 global climate action 'at risk of slipping'

Giant pylons running wind energy to England spark Scottish protests

SNP acting net zero and energy secretary, Gillian Martin

Exclusive SNP will refuse to 'make people poorer' in push to revive climate aims

Extinction Rebellion protesters have locked themselves to the Scottish Parliament

Watch: Extinction Rebellion protesters lock themselves to Parliament

First Minister John Swinney (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Analysis Scotland's embarrassing climate progress will silence SNP at COP29

Environmental campaigners have called for more action from the Scottish Government, Picture: Lisa Ferguson

SNP has 'mountain to climb' as climate targets set to be watered down

Progress in heat pump installations could stall amid cuts to Home Energy Scotland’s advice service Photo: Alamy/PA.

Exclusive SNP green energy cuts puts 'significant numbers' of jobs at risk

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive Oil giant behind Rosebank has secured £400m tax break from Treasury

Edinburgh receives ‘best in class’ rating in a new global competitive city tracker, helped by its high quality of life and burgeoning technology and financial sectors

Edinburgh is 'best in class' as one of world's most investable cities

The majority of North Sea oil and gas companies will not invest in renewables before 2030 Picture: Danny Lawson/PA

Majority of North Sea oil firms have no clean energy plans by 2030

SNP ministers could introduce a tax on private jets in Scotland. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Why John Swinney backs introducing tax on private jets in Scotland

North Sea oil and gas projects are facing legal challenge (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Greenpeace wins court challenge right against two oil and gas fields

SNP ministers have failed to introduce an air departure tax that could also target private jets Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The £22m SNP tax power that would have paid for ScotRail peak fare ban

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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