Grangemouth admission of intention to import shale gas confirms For Argyll...
Ineos, owners of the Grangemouth refinery and petro-chemical, announced yesterday, 10th December 2013, that they intend to import shale gas from the USA.This is just as we predicted in our recent late...
View ArticleUK economy gets thumbs up from Centre for Economic and Business Research
In a financial analysis which underlines the success of the Chancellor’s insistence on austerity measures, the Centre for Economic and Business Research [CEBR] is reporting its conclusions that in the...
View ArticleMaladroit new tax on oil and gas industry creates new threat to North Sea...
In bis Autumn statement in early December, the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced the government’s intention to levy national insurance contributions on workers employed through offshore...
View ArticleFinancial Times survey of expert opinion on impact of Yes vote for Scottish...
We linked to this Financial Times survey in a response to a comment on the article, Pro-union case ought not to make counter ‘offers’ to Scots. It has aroused both interest and some odd summaries of...
View ArticleCarney analysis of sterling zone leaves the Cuthberts’ proposal looking good
Mark Carney, the impressively cool headed and analytical new Governor of the Bank of England, played a blinding game of political neutrality in Edinburgh today.In his speech to a select audience, he...
View ArticleSalmond snubbed oil and gas industry in Aberdeen – but John Reid wowed the room
The UK and Scottish cabinets were competing in Aberdeen recently, with the Prime Minister helicoptering out to a rig and both he and the First Minister doing what an industry, sick of the politicians’...
View ArticleDaft sequel to For Argyll analysis of Councillor Macintyre’s ‘masterplan’ for...
At the end of last week, For Argyll drilled the target of Oban Councillor Duncan Macintyre’s quite mad plan to ‘solve’ problems caused by the occasional landslide induced A83 closure [which does not...
View ArticleDavid Stewart’s Parliamentary question and FOI release show Transport...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown MSP, has been shown, materially and knowingly, to have misled a fellow MSP in a written answer he provided to Dave Stewart MSP on 24th January 2013 – an answer to a...
View ArticleSouth Africa legal system in operation in Pistorius trial
Sky News is covering, live each day from 8.30am, the trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder a year ago of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. It is making compulsive viewing.The South African non-jury...
View ArticleNew SAMS research shows marine food web dynamics guide ecosystem conservation...
New research from the Scottish Association of Marine Science [SAMS] has shown that marine ecosystems have to be taken as whole, individual systems.At the heart of this is is the study of marine food...
View ArticleRon Simon
It is with great sadness that we hear of the death of former Argyll and Bute Councillor for Cowal, the SNP’s Ron Simon.Ron Simon was elected to his seat in 2007 with a majority so substantial that his...
View ArticleTelegraph’s Alan Cochrane clarifies issues on Salmond aide who smeared Clare...
The respected Alan Cochrane, at the Daily Telegraph, is a long time personal friend of Campbell Gunn, the senior adviser to the First Minister who was caught delivering to that paper – but not to Mr...
View ArticleSir Ian Wood: Young voters must know Scotland will have little oil and gas...
Sir Ian Wood is recognised as the leading native figure in the oil industry and a proud Scot – an Aberdonian – living in Scotland. As Chief Executive of the Wood Group from 1967 to 2006 and its Chair...
View ArticleLabour paralysis proves Lamont right
It may be that the Labour party has too much to reform to allow it to see the priorities clearly.At the moment, the party as a whole cannot articulate persuasively what it is for – and it may be that,...
View ArticleNew information dictates new start for the ADP addiction services contract
In June 2014, Argyll and Bute Council’s procurement team issued an Invitation To Tender [ITT] to provide Argyll and Bute-wide community addiction recovery services.The deadline for the submission of...
View ArticleIMF analysis: low oil price to affect UK earliest and hit North Sea producers...
Analysis completed by the International Monetary Fund in association with independent oil and gas consulting services and business intelligence data firm, Rystad Energy – and published in the IMF’s...
View ArticleTactical voting in Argyll and Bute: Alan Reid the most likely pro-union...
Scotland is now fourteen days away away from what is clearly the top of a ski-jump to a one-party-state.If the height and distance of the victory run the polls steadily predict for the SNP jumpers hits...
View ArticleScottish election analysis
Total immersion in number crunching and interpretation completed, the texture of this unforgettable election result in Scotland creates a memorable and, in some cases, perhaps a surprising picture.The...
View ArticleWeak, nervous and unsearching: Audit Scotland report into Argyll and Bute...
As reported here and with responses to it from leading local MSPs, Michael Russell and Jackie Baillie, made public here immediately, this report was published a couple of weeks ago. For Argyll’s...
View ArticleHousing Services issues: specific failures of Audit Scotland report on Argyll...
Issues around the provision of Housing Services in this contract are integral to judgments on the integrity of the processes of the relationships between the Invitation to Tender, the contracted...
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