First Minister Humza Yousaf has revealed auditors who worked for the SNP resigned nearly six months ago.
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Patrick Harvie has signalled the Greens could quit their coalition deal with the SNP if the next first minister backslides on opposing new oil and gas drilling.
The Scottish Greens co-leader said any shift towards supporting further extraction in the North Sea would be a “retrograde” and “damaging” step.
Under Nicola Sturgeon, the Nationalists have notably moved away from backing new drilling projects - such as the controversial Cambo oil field, eventually outright opposed by the outgoing FM.
And in the Scottish Government’s new draft Energy Strategy, published this year, it proposes a “presumption against” new North Sea developments - although licensing is ultimately reserved to Westminster.
Humza Yousaf, the SNP establishment favourite, has vowed to continue Sturgeon’s eco policies on a “just transition” away from fossil fuels and wants to keep the Greens on board.
However, rival candidates Kate Forbes and Ash Regan have both suggested they would slow down the move away from oil and gas, with Forbes saying oil profits should be used to create a sovereign wealth fund like Norway.
Harvie’s party signed the Bute House power-sharing agreement with the Nats in 2021 and claims credit for shifting Sturgeon away from a stance backing “maximum extraction” of North Sea oil.
Speaking to the Record ahead of his party's conference in Clydebank on Saturday, the Scottish Green MSP agreed his party couldn’t credibly stay in government with their principles intact if the next FM reversed that shift.
Harvie said: “That’s probably a fair comment. The Greens are very clear that no new oil and gas licensing should be granted.
“We should be winding down and revoking some of the undeveloped fields that have been granted licences but not yet in
First Minister Humza Yousaf has revealed auditors who worked for the SNP resigned nearly six months ago.
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develop at a rapid pace, more and more people aregetting worried about their capabilities. But Joy Behar thinks Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene might just be the person to “save us” from A.I.
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Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power have announced a joint tour of North America – see all the dates below and buy tickets here.The three bands will hit the road in August and September, and they come in addition to upcoming May dates for Pixies in support of their new album ‘Doggerel’.The tour begins in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20, running for the following month before finishing up in San Diego, California on September 16.See the full list of tour dates below. Tickets are on sale on Friday, March 31 at 10am local time.
The Night Agent snuck its way to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts for the week of March 20.