Kirsty Wark

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319 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Newscast · Andy Burnham's Emergency Cobra Meeting On Extreme Heat · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, it's a kind of a hinged conversation, because there's a conversation about the gas field of Jackdaw, which is ready to go, and Rosebank, which is obviously all you know is the oil one.

Now, basically, there's a great deal of pressure because of security, energy security, to get this stuff out there.

In Scotland, of course, the SNP government doesn't want that to happen.

But the flip side of that is, in terms of wind power,

There is a massive proposal for Ardacere, which has already been turned down by the government.

The Chinese would build the biggest kind of wind farm manufacturing for turbines.

That's been turned down by the government.

John Swinney wants that to go ahead.

So with us a quid pro quo, you also have to think that he's moved Ed Miliband out of environment where he was absolutely dead against oil and gas.

So I think there's going to be some deal done somewhere.

Now, we can't process that oil.

The gas can come on, but I do think that something's going to move in this.

Now, when, I would imagine, will be quite soon in the gas and oil decision.

it's not

But the point about that, as you were saying, is the licenses were granted.

that might be the get-out clause for the government because what they're saying essentially is we will give no new licenses.

Well, these aren't new licenses.

Definitely not.

Can't outbinder that.

That was a brilliant analysis.

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