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Educational Institutions Urged to Help Scotland Gear Up For “Green Energy Bonanza” |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
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 A new report has suggested that Scotland could benefit from over 40,000 new wind power-related jobs in the next decade, and Dr Bill Wilson MSP (SNP) has urged Scottish educational institutions to provide the skills needed to make this a reality.
Dr Wilson, a member of the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, said, “The report, commissioned by Scottish Renewables and Scottish Enterprise, suggests that Scotland’s wind power industry has the potential to be as big as our oil industry. Our oil industry employed 41,900 people in 2008 and was worth £5.5 billion in 2007. “This new sector could directly employ 28,000 people within ten years, with an additional 20,000 employed in related industries. For us to make the most of our offshore wind potential we shall need new ports to deal with additional offshore traffic, and new infrastructure will have to be created to take this energy to the national grid. All of this means jobs! |
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JOBS ANNOUNCEMENT ‘FANTASTIC BOOST’ FOR LOCAL ECONOMY |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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 SNP MSP Dr. Bill Wilson has welcomed the announcement today (Wednesday) from global technology firm Hewlett Packard (HP) which plans to create 700 new jobs at its base in Erskine, Renfrewshire.
Dr. Wilson has called the plans a ‘fantastic boost’ for the area and says that it removes any fears that the company’s manufacturing operations would be moved from Scotland to the Czech Republic, as previously announced in 2009. Commenting, West of Scotland MSP Dr. Wilson said: “This is a fantastic boost not just for Renfrewshire but for the whole of Scotland. “The plans by Hewlett Packard to create these 700 new jobs underline Scotland’s reputation in IT and customer services, firmly endorsing the Scottish Government’s hard work to attract new jobs to Scotland. |
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UK’s Attitude to Human Rights Raised in Scottish Parliament |
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
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 Dr Bill Wilson MSP (SNP) has drawn the Scottish Parliament’s attention to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s plans to cut the costs of its Annual Human Rights Report and asked his fellow MSPs to join him in pressuring the FCO not to cut back on the Report’s “compass and rigour”.
Dr Wilson said, “I was alarmed to read in the Observer that the word had gone out to UK embassies that ‘we need to concentrate on trade’, so the 23 August statement on the FCO website implying that the UK will not put trade before human rights is very welcome. “Despite the FCO’s Annual Human Rights Report, however, the UK’s record on human rights is far from good, so maintaining the Report’s standards is not enough in itself. Previous UK administrations have been responsible for, or complicit in, appalling atrocities (for example in Diego Garcia, Iraq and Indonesia). The ConDem coalition should turn over a new leaf in this regard. |
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