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First Minister John Swinney delivers a speech focused on the Scottish economy in central Glasgow on Wednesday (Picture: John Devlin)

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John Swinney speaks in the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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Offshore wind farm crane firm to create 25 jobs in Scottish city

Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian

Energy giant set to extend lifespan of nuclear power plants

The oil refinery at Grangemouth is set to close in spring 2025.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street with her ministerial red box before delivering her Budget in the House of Commons

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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)

Exclusive Petroineos poised for tax breaks despite refinery closure

Workers survey the offline turbine hall in the UK’s last coal-fired power station (Picture: Darren Staples/AFP/Getty)

Transition to smart energy systems is the only way forward new - John Forster

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks with First Minister John Swinney during the Council of the Nations and Regions in Edinburgh. Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Analysis Why the SNP is now singing the praises of Labour's GB Energy strategy

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Port of Greenock while on the General Election campaign trail in May

Ministers speed up ‘skills passport’ for workers to move to green jobs

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.

Starmer will pay heavy price for North Sea and Grangemouth shutdowns Paul Wilson

The Viking Wind Farm on the Shetland Islands. Energy giants at SSE have announced the completion of what is expected to be the most productive onshore wind farm in the UK. Picture: SSE/PA Wire

The massive 103-turbine wind farm with a 160-mile underwater cable

Global energy price falls are not reaching UK consumers, says reader (Picture: Adobe)

Readers' Letters: Why are UK consumers paying so much for energy?

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the coast of Caithness.

Have your say on the GB Energy Scotland base

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Picture: James Glossop/PA

Business chiefs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen in bidding war over GB Energy

Analysis Why Shell pulling out of North Sea wind farm plans would be nightmare

Several long-term options could revive Grangemouth (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The 5 options being investigated to save Grangemouth’s future

Ed Miliband’s pledge to hundreds of Grangemouth workers

North Sea oil and gas reserves are dwindling (Picture: STF/AFP via Getty Images)

New row over North Sea oil licences misses the most important point Scotsman comment

Government denies Miliband ordered immediate ban on new North Sea oil

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray. Image: Getty Images.

'Positive' update on Grangemouth jobs to be made soon

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer says he's already had talks on securing Grangemouth jobs

Jeremy Grant is a freelance writer and editor, and was a journalist at the Financial Times and Reuters for 25 years

Energy is no longer simply a national business matter - Jeremy Grant

How has Keir Starmer turned the tables on 'complacent' SNP? Euan McColm

Shadow Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband speaks at the Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow. Image: Andrew Milligan/Press Association.

Miliband: Labour will create 'hundreds of thousands' of renewables jobs

If Labour keeps moving right, disillusionment with democracy will grow Joyce McMillan

Despite Ed Miliband's ukele ode to windfarms, nuclear is the answer to net zero Paul Wilson

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer conducted a reshuffle on Monday.

Analysis: Keir Starmer's reshuffle purges left with right in complete control

The average energy bill will drop to below £2,000 from October. Image: Peter Byrne/Press Association.

Why homeowners may not be any better off despite energy price cap cut

Starmer and Yousaf must find a way to face down right-wing climate sceptics Joyce McMillan

Green policies are now up for debate following the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election.

Analysis: Political parties unsure as cost of living battles climate crisis

Campaigners have protested against the potential development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea. Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images

Rosebank oilfield, net zero targets and what it all means for households

BP's profit haul was more than half a billion pounds more than expected in the opening quarter of the year as the business continued to benefit from elevated energy prices.

Huge BP profit of $5bn in just three months sparks outrage and praise

BP has reported that underlying profit more than doubled to 27.7 billion dollars (£23 billion) last year after energy prices surged higher following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Energy giant BP's profits double to £23bn

An offshore oil platform at sunset. Picture: Getty Images

Increasing windfall tax won’t suddenly fix prices, academic warns

BP have announced profits amid the cost of living crisis.

BP sees huge profit surge due to high oil and gas prices

Rishi Sunak during a hustings event in Darlington, County Durham, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister. Picture date: Tuesday August 9, 2022.

UK braces for blackouts as leadership candidates clash over support measures

Kwasi Kwarteng

Windfall tax on oil and gas companies is 'bad idea', insists Kwasi Kwarteng

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit at the Field End Infant school, in South Ruislip, following the local government elections. Picture: PA

Johnson urges BP and Shell to invest in wind farms to drive down energy bills

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak behaves like a stranded alien - Euan McColm

The war in Ukraine is being used as a pretext for declaring the end of attempts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

How disaster capitalists are leading us towards a planet-sized disaster
It’s 15 years since the Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein published her book The Shock Doctrine, on the theory and practice of what she called “disaster ...

Protesters leave the P&O site at the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire, after P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices. Picture date: Friday March 18, 2022.

P&O protests take place across UK over sacking of 800 seafarers

The latest results from oil giant BP echo those last week from rival Shell, which increased its profits nearly fourteen-fold amid soaring oil and gas prices.

Fresh call for windfall tax as BP banks biggest profit in eight years: reaction

President for COP 26, Alok Sharma, speaks on stage during the opening ceremony at SECC in Glasgow

World leaders urged to get climate deal over line

Puppet Little Amal visits Action Zone at the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow for the opening of the Gender Day event.

Climate action by countries puts world on track for ‘at least 2.4C’ of warming

COP26: Youth activists led by Greta Thunberg to march through Glasgow demanding climate action at summit.

Youth activists march through Glasgow demanding climate action

Ed Miliband said Scottish independence was a distraction from the climate crisis.

Ed Miliband: 'Independence referendum would be distraction from climate crisis'

Aid cash call: Ed Miliband

COP26: $1bn aid cash is vital to climate change says Ed Miliband

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for months' (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for ...

Soaring gas prices is leading to concerns about knock-on effects to consumers

Carbon dioxide shortages a 'perfect storm' for Scottish hospitality

Wholesale prices for gas have surged 250 per cent since January,

Business Secretary insists 'no question of lights going out' amid gas crisis

Ed Miliband championed the idea of 'One Nation' politics but national pride depends on actual achievements, not gimmicks (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

OBON song means well but national pride cannot be faked – Ayesha Hazarika

David Cameron reached the political top at a young age, so to see him reduced to a rather desperate lobbyist is not just grubby, but tragic, says Ayesha Hazarika (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

Lobbying scandal is about more than Cameron's fall from grace – Ayesha Hazarika

Polling has polling found that employees have been placed under pressure to come into offices when they could be working from home (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

1 in 5 still going into work unnecessarily due to pressure from bosses

Downing Street has refused to rule out changes to the 48-Hour working week.

Downing Street refuses to rule out post-Brexit changes to 48-Hour working week

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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

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