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Why Scotland should learn from Spain to save fossil fuel workers from unemployment The Scottish and UK governments need a better plan to deal with mass job losses in the North Sea oil and gas industries

“Climate targets are being met at the expense of those dependent on industries facing closure.”

Excellent feature by @riyokoshibe.bsky.social writing for @scotsman.com on Scotland's just transition plans following the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery.

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@entandsoc.bsky.social was delighted to recently publish @riyokoshibe.bsky.social fascinating work on Grangemouth. The work can be found here and is published Open Access:
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With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.

We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.

The University and College Union Glasgow (UCUG) is gravely concerned at the response of the university’s governing bodies to peaceful student protests relating to divestment and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The way to deal with a student occupation and hunger strike should be to engage immediately with the students whose health and wellbeing is in danger, not to refuse to call an emergency meeting of Court to discuss student demands, nor indeed to invite police on campus for three days in a row to intimidate protesters. We in UCUG have been clear that we wish to see divestment from the arms industry and a just peace in Palestine. We will also continue to vocally oppose the global crackdown on basic human rights and civil liberties on staff and students involved in the divestment and pro-Palestinian movements, especially when it happens on our campus. We call once again on the senior management group and members of Court to examine their conscience and change course.

No Cops on Campus.

The University and College Union Glasgow (UCUG) is gravely concerned at the response of the university’s governing bodies to peaceful student protests relating to divestment and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

New research article on the Grangemouth oil refinery closure!

@riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I have written for Journal of the British Academy on what the Grangemouth closure reveals about the failings of just transition planning in Scotland and the UK. Read in full🔽

New article published on the Grangemouth oil refinery for the Journal of the British Academy. @ewangibbs.bsky.social and I wrote about net zero governance in Scotland and the UK and its failure to secure a just transition.

Read more here! doi.org/10.5871/jba/...

Thank you for sharing!

The brilliant @ewangibbs.bsky.social and @riyokoshibe.bsky.social have an important new piece out on the Grangemouth Oil Refinery Closure and lessons for “Just Transition” governance. 👇

I learned about Grangemouth when I worked on a CEE blog post with Riyoko last year (tinyurl.com/kbyxf46r).

This event will provide a unique view into the front-lines of Scotland's Energy Transition and give a voice to those who we as a society cannot afford to leave behind.

#JustTransition

Last year I wrote about Grangemouth's energy history for @energy-ethics.bsky.social. Half a century ago Grangemouth workers were put at the heart of the UK's energy economy - today they are being left behind. energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/blog/grangem...

On 11 Feb @ewangibbs.bsky.social and I will be presenting research on the Grangemouth refinery and the unjust energy transition facing the workforce @energy-ethics.bsky.social in St Andrews. Book your tickets now!

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What more could you want: energy transitions, deindustrialization, environmental histories, and moral economies!

Thank you to @ewangibbs.bsky.social and Jim Phillips for their comments and guidance :)

Really happy to publish this paper with @entandsoc.bsky.social! This is an environmental/industrial history of Grangemouth tracing roots of fossil fuel dependency and explores growth of petrochemicals after WWII through oral history & archive study. It's open access! doi.org/10.1017/eso....