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Scottish MPs warn clean energy jobs not being created fast enough to compensate for North Sea decline

Michael Holder

24 October 2025 • 5 min read

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Parliament's Scottish Affairs Committee warns of looming employment gap, as North Sea oil and gas jobs decline and clean energy industries struggle to scale up quickly enough

The number of jobs being lost in Scotland due to the ongoing decline of the UK's North Sea oil and gas industry currently outstrips the number of new work opportunities being created by the scaling up...

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