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Striking the Balance

  • Submitted by: Kevin Stewart, Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 June 2025
  • Motion reference: S6M-17798

That the Parliament notes the publication of a new report from Robert Gordon University’s Energy Transition Institute, titled Striking the Balance: Building a sustainable UK offshore energy workforce; understands that this report warns that the UK oil and gas workforce could shrink by approximately 400 jobs every two weeks for the next five years without urgent government action; notes that this would mean the same number of redundancies as those caused by the closure of Grangemouth every fortnight until 2030; recognises that the report highlights the UK’s “widening gap between policy intent and real-world outcomes”, in comparison to countries like Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, which continue to invest in domestic fossil fuel production while accelerating low-carbon growth; notes the warning from the Director of the Energy Transition Institute that "The UK’s lack of joined up action means that the window of opportunity for delivering a just transition is closing"; believes that this report is a damning indictment of UK Government energy policy, which it sees as leading to a premature end to North Sea oil and gas jobs, while dithering and delaying the ramping up of investment in the very renewable energy projects that are required to ensure a just transition; calls on the UK Government to finally start working with the industry to deliver that just transition and prevent thousands of highly-skilled workers from Scotland's offshore energy workforce being left on the scrapheap, and hopes that this report is taken as the wake-up call that it considers the UK Government badly needs.


Supported by: Karen Adam, Colin Beattie, Jackie Dunbar, Kenneth Gibson, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Stuart McMillan, David Torrance

Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S6M-17798.1

Striking the Balance - Amendment 1 - Amendment

Submitted by: Douglas Lumsden, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Supported by: Jeremy Balfour, Miles Briggs, Tim Eagle, Murdo Fraser, Meghan Gallacher, Dr Sandesh Gulhane, Craig Hoy, Edward Mountain, Douglas Ross, Annie Wells