Bah, North Sea Oil and Gas has peaked. England guzzled it all and now Scotland gets the post-peak tail end of it.
If the British government knew those oil fields were in Scottish water, yet still assigned contracts and sent the profits to London doesn't that suggest that the Scot might be owed something.
I think that that McCrone report confirms Scottish paranoia that the English are out to take their land and money, and in the coming elections I think that the SNP stands a very strong chance of winning a majority in the Scottish Parliament.
And if they win, Salmond will call for an indepenedence referendum. And I think that this serves to confirm that the negative comments of the American consul in Edinburgh resulted from the fear that a SNP led government might try to nationalize the oil fields or at the least review contracts.
Salmond has been making trips to Norway, and as we know Statoil is a state owned company.
This should be fun. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Seems to me I recall something of a claim Denmark still has on either the Orkneys, the Shetlands, or both, a claim they have tried to settle even as recently as around '14-'18 or so.
Wonder what sort of spanner that'd put in the works. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
Rockall is a small rocky islet in the North Atlantic, in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom. It is probably better known as one of the Sea Areas named in the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The United Kingdom's title to Rockall is accepted by its neighbours. In 1997, the UK abandoned any claim to an extended EEZ around and beyond it. The remaining issue is that the status of the continental shelf rights of surrounding ocean floor is disputed with the United Kingdom by the Republic of Ireland, Denmark (for the Faroe Islands), and Iceland. These are the exclusive rights to exploit any resources on or under the ocean floor (oil, natural gas, etc.) and should not be confused with the EEZ, as continental shelf rights do not carry any privileges with regard to fisheries.
The actual money was never paid so the heir foreclosed.
