On Wednesday this week (29th October) the Scottish Parliament voted by 65 – 30 in favour, with 16 abstentions on a Scottish Government motion that the British-Irish Council should support a proposal by Scottish Ministers to lead work on renewable energy.
Anything to do with renewable energy is of core interest to Argyll, with its significant resources in almost all forms of renewable energy – wind, wave, tidal flow, marine and fossil biomass.
Scotland as a whole has huge resources in the field and the Scottish Government is driving strongly ahead in developing them.
There is a logic in the proposal voted through at Holyrood. It would make sense for Scotland to take this lead. It is the only part of the UK to set its face resolutley against nuclear power and to turn energetically to harvesting energy from alternative and renewable sources.
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