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Peel Ports Consortium must not be allowed to buy Forth Ports
As we have been predicting, Clydeport’s owner, John Whittaker and Peel Ports, the holding company for the his significant portfolio of ports, are bidding to buy Forth Ports, They lead the Northstream...
View ArticleWhyte & Mackay apologises for misleading argument on minimum pricing
Scotch whisky firm, Whyte & Mackay has had to apologise for presenting a misleading case in its argument against the Scottish Government’s plan to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol.The...
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Public Meeting on Clydeport and Maersk ships in Loch Striven
This public meeting – on 19th March – was called by petition from the residents of South Cowal and, with scant attention from some of the senior invitees, it became not a dispirited session but...
View ArticleQuestionable call from Energy Minister for Scots to stock up on heating fuel now
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing today called on Scots to stock up on heating fuel to make sure they don’t get caught out at Christmas, as some did last year.At one level this is no more than common...
View ArticleRSPB response to Grangemouth carbon capture highlights difference from...
RSPB Scotland has cautiously welcomed plans for a Carbon Capture and Storage scheme at Grangemouth.The new proposal intends to achieve more than 90% carbon capture right from the outset, a stark...
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Spectacular fundraiser to see Ardroy staff paddle coast to coast, cycle and...
The Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre, run as an independent social enterprise since 2011 and now in a position to buy it from its former owner, Fife Council and develop it, is to see its staff splash...
View ArticleGame on for Day Two of 2013 Cowal Highland Gathering
Visitors to the Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon today discovered why the event is billed so highly in the annual Highland Games calendar.The thousands who gathered at Dunoon Stadium were treated to...
View ArticleAll the ‘A’s: The A Team and the announcements at the SNP conference
There were a lot of things that were interesting about the SNP’s annual party conference in Perth over the past few days.The party’s A Team for this last set piece before the September 2014...
View ArticleProject Fear finds second home but the real fear is how we pay for the ever...
Following its now concluded annual conference, the SNP has voluntarily disqualified itself from issuing any allegations against the pro-Union campaign of the grounds of promoting ‘Project Fear’.The...
View ArticleBBC trailing reversal of Grangemouth closure
[12.20 update below] The BBC website is just trailing a reversal of the Ineos decision to close the petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth site.A meeting of workers just now, 11.00 25th October,...
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Andrew Argyle: The unnecessary threat to Grangemouth petrochemical
Threatened closure of INEOS’s Grangemouth petrochemical plant has been averted following a humiliating climb-down by the employees’ UNITE union and government intervention culminating in £134 million...
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Scare stories and blatant puffs as pros and antis focus on an independent...
[Update: Ohio image added] The pro-United Kingdom consensus needs to protest as much as anyone against ridiculous scare stories. All these do is mask the indisputable facts of the inadequacy, not of a...
View ArticleUnite’s Grangemouth Convener resigns after completion of Ineos investigation
Stephen Deans, Convener for the Unite Union at Grangemouth and the trigger for Unite’s disastrously misjudged strike threats to Ineos, owner of the complex, resigned from his job today.He had been...
View ArticleLamont looking for an acceptable solution to Labour’s Falkirk crisis
More revelations have emerged about the Unite trade union’s attempt to manipulate the selection of the candidate to represent the Labour party in the Falkirk constituency at the 2015 General...
View ArticleSolidarity shopping – a good idea with a damaging affiliation
Mick Rice, Labour candidate for the Scottish Parliament at the last election, is promoting ‘solidarity shopping’ at the website notamazon.co.uk.The heart of this is trying to start an ethical...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The North Sea
This is the third in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The UK Refineries
This is the seventh of a series of eight researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: Grangemouth – the game changer
This is the eighth and last of a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry,the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent...
View ArticleGrangemouth admission of intention to import shale gas confirms For Argyll...
Ineos, owners of the Grangemouth refinery and petro-chemical, announced yesterday, 10th December 2013, that they intend to import shale gas from the USA.This is just as we predicted in our recent late...
View ArticleFascinating Peston interview with Jim Ratcliffe of Ineos
Tonight’s 10pm BBC’s News carried a fascinating interview by Economics Editor, Robert Peston with Jim Ratcliffe, the major shareholder of Ineos, owner of the Grangemough Refinery and Petrochemicals...
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