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Varying predictions of oil and gas production create wildly different, and potentially misleading, predictions of oil and gas job losses. But there is widespread agreement: jobs are in decline regardless, so workers are right to demand a transition plan.

New polling has found that concern about climate change remains high across Scotland and that two-thirds of Scots want climate change to remain a top priority for the Scottish Government. The survey also revealed a lack of trust in both the current UK Government and North Sea oil and gas companies to safely handle the transition towards green energy. 

Despite positioning itself as a driving force in the UK’s shift to clean energy, the oil and gas industry’s North Sea transition plan is not fit-for-purpose. A fair transition will only be achieved when government takes responsibility for properly managing it and when everyone – unions, and workers and impacted communities– has a say in what it looks like.