International Energy Agency

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Burnham to 'approve new North Sea drilling' on Monday - reports

Disused North Sea oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a downturn in the sector in 2018

Jackdaw bosses call for 'timely approval' from Miliband before winter

A Lufthansa A319 passenger plane. (Photo by Leonhard Simon/Getty Images)

Lufthansa suspends flights from Glasgow Airport due to fuel crisis

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Readers’ letters: UK is being held to ransom by warmongers like Trump

The UK Government has listed clean energy as one of its five priorities, says Sarah Munro

Winds of change blowing through energy job market

National Grid has outlined “unprecedented” plans to invest £35 billion in its electricity-transmission business over the five years to March 2031.

National Grid's £35 billion plan to transform our electricity supply

Everyone needs to work together to tackle the climate emergency (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

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Scotland must urgently tackle greenhouse gas that's 80 times as potent as carbon Richard Dixon

Wildfires amid a 40C heatwave in Chile have killed more than 100 people and destroyed at least 1,300 homes (Picture: Claudio Santana/Getty Images)

Tory logic behind UK oil and gas boom is clearly insane

United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell embraces COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber as he returns to a plenary session at the summit. Picture: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

COP28: What has been agreed by delegates around fossil fuels?

As world embraces renewables, Rishi Sunak leads UK in wrong direction Richard Dixon

Sunak's climate stance and Rosebank oil field go-ahead are crazy gambles Richard Dixon

Rosebank is a disaster for climate change and economy Chris Skidmore

Rishi Sunak, seen visiting the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead in July, needs to demonstrate that his new pathway to net-zero emissions is credible (Picture: Euan Duff/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Rosebank decision adds to concerns Sunak doesn't take climate change seriously

Why is the UK lagging behind other countries in heat pump installation?

Sunak wrong to claim boosting UK oil production will help fight climate change Scotsman comment

John Forster is Chairman of Forster Group

Solar is leading the charge for renewable energy

The price of crude oil increased by 5.5% on Monday April 3.

Oil prices rise more than 5 percent as production is cut

Oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a previous price slump (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Is Scottish Government set to end oil and gas industry? – Dr Richard Dixon

Flooding caused by heavy rain in New South Wales saw evacuation orders issued for towns across the Northern Rivers region (Picture: Dan Peled/Getty Images)

Where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world?

Eco-friendly labels (photo: adobe)

Going Green - Many things are labelled eco-friendly but can we trust them all?

The more greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, the warmer the world will get (Picture: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images)

UK Government still thinks it's business as usual for oil and gas –Richard Dixon

Fuel prices displayed at an Esso petrol station near Cardiff. Fuel prices have hit a new record high as the cost of oil soars due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

UK wholesale gas price soars to near record levels amid war in Ukraine

Petrol and diesel prices hit record high levels

Take the train rather than flying (photo: Shutterstock)

Going Green - Are you thinking of making great escape with sun summer break?

Orsted's 1,000th turbine in UK waters at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Picture: contributed.

Scotland must now build on its progress towards net zero - Mads Nipper comment

The oil industry needs to stop using delaying tactics amid the fight against climate change (Picture: PA)

Oil industry has shown it's unfit to lead energy transition – Dr Richard Dixon

The market for oil and gas is set to diminish as new petrol-driven cars and gas boilers are banned (Picture: STF/AFP via Getty Images)

The economic case for fossil fuels is fading – Scotsman comment

A volunteer firefighter prepares to tackle a fire approaching Akcayaka village in Milas area of Turkey, which has been hit by the worst wildfires in its history, according to President Tayyip Erdogan (Picture: Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images)

Greed has pushed us to the brink of losing a stable climate forever – Paul Ekins

A Friends of the Earth report has found that the oil and gas the UK is planning to extract has increased by 15 per cent since the Scottish government and the UK Parliament declared a climate emergency (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

UK oil industry set to grow despite 'climate emergency' – Dr Richard Dixon

Trucks drive near the Neurath coal-fired power station and the open-cast mine at Garzweiler in western Germany (Picture: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images)

World still can't kick coal habit despite global warming – Dr Richard Dixon

Prime Minister Boris Johnson onboard the Esvagt Alba during a visit to the Moray Offshore Windfarm East, off the Aberdeenshire coast.

COP26: Battlelines drawn in Scotland's green revolution

Burning more fossil fuels means climate change will get worse (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Allowing Cambo oil field like opening 18 coal power stations – Dr Richard Dixon

The government is aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Homeowners face hefty fines if gas boilers are not replaced before they are bann...

No new fossil fuel boilers should be sold from 2025 onwards if there is to be global net-zero emissions by 2050, said the International Energy Agency (Photo: Shutterstock)

Gas boilers need to banned from 2025 to achieve net-zero emissions, says Interna...

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Renewables use expands far more slowly in transport, including biofuels and electric vehicles charged with clean energy. Picture: John Devlin

Renewables to fuel a third of electricity use in five years

Royal Dutch Shell chief Ben van Beurden. Picture: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Shell's earnings to halve amid plunging oil prices

"The austerity gambit failed to invest in growth and the price paid could be grave". Picture: Contributed

North Sea jobs in jeopardy as oil prices plummet

George Kerevan. Picture: Jane Barlow

Comment: Oil slides | bond issue

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Fossil fuel needs
Carolyn Taylor chastises me for daring to tell the “green zealots” that they will never wean the world off fossil fuels (Letters, 15 November).

Renewable costs

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Scottish gas and oil exports reported as steady

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Fear and oil price slide weigh on FTSE

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University's course in carbon finance a first

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Opec output row fuels further rise in oil price

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Market report: Oil price optimism boosts equities

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Conflicting views on 2011 oil demand

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Global demand for oil revised upwards

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Eco body defends reports

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Rising cost of oil 'a threat to global economic recovery'

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Demand for oil will peak by 2030 – BP chief

Energy agency may be making waves - but it's not generating power

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