Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Ahead of Scotland’s climate week, Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth has been visiting Shetland to see how local community organisations are supporting climate action.

About 23 percent of households in Shetland use heating oil as their primary source of central heating. Now the Scottish Emergency Heating Oil Scheme, which was introduced in April to support low-income households struggling with the cost of heating oil, has been extended into winter.

After many months of planning, the new Shetland Animal Welfare charity shop in the Toll Clock Shopping Centre has opened as a shop.

Norwegian energy company Statkraft has sold its green hydrogen and ammonia projects in Shetland to Norwegian-owned Kentron Green Nordic, one undeveloped project being at Scatsta Airport and the other, also undeveloped, at Tagdale on the east side of Dales Voe.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland has returned to the normal level for water scarcity rejoining Orkney, the Western Isles and the west of Scotland.

Meanwhile figures from the Met Office show that during the summer months of June, July and August, Shetland was warmer and was drier than the average of from 1991 to 2020.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and islands, Morven-May MacCallum, who is visiting Shetland this weekend, has raised in portfolio questions in the Scottish parliament the importance of tailoring support for the textile sector to meet the needs of island-based businesses.