Alex Salmond

[sivam]

Has mr salmond made any comment about the situation in the North Sea I hope all his followers are paying attention. A month since the referendum and we would have been in dire straits after a YES vote. Perhaps we will get peace from the call for a rerun but I doubt it. Blinkered thinking.

[jourdain2]

I don't think he has. A cold bucket of reality may have shocked him into silence.

[SirOracle]

Oil was never a major player in the referendum question. The case for independence was able to stand without it,although it would always be a bonus.

[DTCwordfan]

well they (the SNP) made enough play of oil in their campaign - and on inflated forecasts both in terms of price and volumes recovered.

Having said that, this comment of sivam's is unfair. Very few companies have made any project cuts at this point though there has been planning for them - if $60 or sub 60/bbl prices are sustained, allowing for quality differences. The issue is whether OPEC, as the major economic entity in Oil make the necessary cuts in output to bring the price up - their projects and Government Commonwealth funds needing this.

Having said this, projects like shale gas or black oil extraction & hydrocracking (as in Canada) must be suffering at this world pricing level - if there is to be fall out, it's in these sort of projects. Those concerning production efficiencies and new technology for that will survive.

As we stand, even though I am not a Salmond fan, as he is a way-to-the-left socialist, this comment of the OP is unfair.

[THECORBYLOON]

SIVAM, independence would not have been until 24th March 2016 so if anyone is blinkered, it's you.

[anneasquith]

^^^^^ just a detail sivam forgot?

[mikey4444]

With you here sivam 100%. The ruddy Scots were making a case for independence, partly on the financial benefits of Tartan Oil but it never made much sense.

What good sense then, that the Scottish public made in the voting booth after all !

[beegeebee]

Never thought Salmond was really interested in Full Independence, he just wanted to screw more cash out of Westminster and he certainly succeeded in his (my view) aim, and also left a huge constitutional problem for the current government. The coalition has to tread the fine dividing line between giving something to regions without falling into the trap of doing what the E.U. is seeking to achieve of amalgamating areas into E.U. fiefdoms.

[janbee]

Yes, Fat Eck has gone very quiet on the subject along with that Sturgeon woman. No doubt it's all the fault of Westminster. !!