Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The First Minister John Swinney has said that the “critical transition” on climate change must be considered in the question of further production in the 'North Sea'.

Apart from the Jackdaw gas field east of Aberdeen, the critical fields are west of Shetland, in the Atlantic Ocean and not in the North Sea.

The Lancaster field has also closed and the floating production storage and offloading vessel Aoka Mizu, which had been in the field west of Shetland since March 2019, is now on its way to Walvis Bay in Namibia, after a visit to Belfast, then on to Singapore.

With Christopher Nolan's large-scale action epic The Odyssey, and starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, showing in Mareel until next Thursday, not many will realise that some of the scenes were filmed last summer on the coast of Moray including Culbin Sands.

The Scottish government's minister for Europe, external affairs and energy Stephen Gethins has expanded on his response to a parliamentary question that the Scottish government isn’t doing enough to support a coexistence between offshore wind development and the fishing industry.

In June, Heriot-Watt University projected that 11 per cent of the North Sea could fall within wind farm boundaries by 2050, a rise from the current 1 per cent.

Meanwhile Hannah Fennell, the chief executive designate of the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen's Association, has said that Scotland's pelagic industry has a bright future following significant investment in vessels, technology, science and its supply chain.