Energy aims need co-operation, but Humza Yousaf is too stubborn
In what was billed as his biggest speech yet to business as first minister, Humza Yousaf used the All-Energy conference in Glasgow to call for UK government support for decarbonisation opportunities in Scotland, including the eye-catching Acorn project for carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The huge promise of Acorn is that it would use existing oil and gas pipelines to put damaging global warming emissions from heavy industry back under the seabed whence they came. And it’s right that Yousaf’s Scottish ministers should be working with their Westminster counterparts to get what has been billed as a “no brainer” strategic investment over the line.
Reading the first minister’s speech, I was pleasantly surprised at the tone adopted. Not once was independence mentioned. There was
