Beyond Oil, Scotland’s Challenge and Opportunity

This new series by DeSmog UK A Just Transition: From Fossil Fuels to Environmental Justice charts the prospects and obstacles to the shift away from oil, gas and coal and explores the opportunity to create jobs in new clean industries, written by Christopher Silver and photography by Alan McCredie.

Part One: Fife, Kingdom of Coal.

Part Two: Aberdeen, City of Oil.

Just Transition from Alan McCredie on Vimeo.

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Roland Stiven says:

9th November 2018 at 8:07 pm

Interesting. I’d like to see a similar approach done for rural communities- a transition to modern sustainable productive communities rather than hollowed out tourist heritage retirement serviced communities. This is probably linked to the decarbonisation.

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