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THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.Mr Salmond also seems to make the dangerous assumption that he can hold on to what he's already got. Elections don't work like that. Fraser Crawford, 52 Gloucester Drive, London. Give us your views - email your letters for publication in The Herald
THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach
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THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.Mr Salmond also seems to make the dangerous assumption that he can hold on to what he's already got. Elections don't work like that. Fraser Crawford, 52 Gloucester Drive, London. Give us your views - email your letters for publication in The Herald
THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.
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THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.Mr Salmond also seems to make the dangerous assumption that he can hold on to what he's already got. Elections don't work like that. Fraser Crawford, 52 Gloucester Drive, London. Give us your views - email your letters for publication in The Herald
THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach
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THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.Mr Salmond also seems to make the dangerous assumption that he can hold on to what he's already got. Elections don't work like that. Fraser Crawford, 52 Gloucester Drive, London. Give us your views - email your letters for publication in The Herald
THURSDAY'S editorial, regarding a Greens/SNP coalition, hit the nail on the head. "It is difficult to imagine any meeting of minds over oil."Peak oil, the peaking in global oil production some time this decade, is now at the core of the Scottish Greens' thinking, as testified by the fact that peak oil is now apparently part of their energy policy, and we (Depletion Scotland) have given peak oil talks to several of their local branches. The SNP point of view contrasts sharply. UK oil production peaked in 1999 with an average of 2.68 million barrels per day (mbd), and looks like it will be about 1.65 mbd for 2005. The decline of UK natural gas production is even worse. The UK is now a net importer of oil and gas, while were it Scotland's oil and gas we would, like Norway, be a significant exporter (presumably to England), but not for much longer.This is the point that the SNP fails to grasp. On current trends, oil and gas production from the UK sector of the North Sea will be more or less over by 2020. Their road-building plans do not make sense in a post-peak oil world, or one where the UK/Scotland no longer produces any oil of its own. They may well shout about the recent find of the Buzzard oilfield, the biggest discovery of oil for the UK in the past 10 years. But it is expected to add only 2% to our total North Sea reserves, hardly something to celebrate.The Greens/SNP coalition certainly looks an interesting one. Hopefully the Greens can knock some oil-depletion sense into their potential partners.Douglas Low, Depletion Scotland, 29 Bellevue Gardens, Edinburgh. THE SNP has been right to approach the Greens about becoming partners in a future coalition government. For a start, it's good strategy: it makes them look more plausible contenders to become the largest party in Holyrood than they actually are, and this should be an impression that they are keen to foster. It is also important to make signals to their fellow politicians and even more so to the country at large that the jaded, sterile Lib-Lab "pact of plastic" need not last in perpetuity. Indeed, advertsing the fact that this is exactly what Jack and his cronies believe would be a great idea. However, the prospect of a (what silly slogan did this one get? Thistle and Sunflower . . . oh dear) Green-Nat coalition actually running the country is highly unlikely to materialise. Your editorial rightly frets about the apparently irreconcilable policy differences between the putative partners – economic policy, fisheries and most crucially North Sea oil. But I fear that one whiff of the interior of a ministerial Mondeo might just be enough to undo many a conviction.No, the real reason why the coalition is unlikely to emerge is this (and it is touched on briefly in the editorial): Alex Salmond claims his party will snatch 20 seats from under Labour's nose at the next election and as we all know this is just nonsense, frankly duplicitous nonsense. Where are these 20 seats going to come from? The Lib-Lab pact need not last forever, but the SNP is singularly failing to make a convincing argument to support this proposition. And its maths doesn't add up. Presumably the magic 20 are going to be coming largely from the central belt yet one need only look back at the Livingston and Cathcart results to measure the Nats' chronic inability to capitalise on Labour problems in Labour heartlands.
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