Douglas Lumsden MSP
@DLumsden_MSP
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🇬🇧 @ScotTories candidate for Aberdeenshire East 🏴 MSP for North East Scotland ⚡ Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Energy & Environment
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined March 2009
What an absolute disgraceful comment from an SNP MSP. Hiding behind the ministerial code whilst still meeting with SSEN and not communities. Utter disdain for the concerns of rural communities.
You know fine well that the Ministerial Code restricts what the Cabinet Secretary can and cannot do, but that won’t stop your backbiting. Communities should realise that you are more interested in partisan politicking than actually finding solutions for them. A very poor show!
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That's why we'd scrap the ECU and empower communities, something the Scottish Govt can do right now, if it was on the side of rural Scotland. https://t.co/7syMOlb8gC
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We will use ScotWind funds to lower energy bills, empower local communities to stand up against unpopular energy infrastructure and support our oil and gas industry.
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Glad to see you support our proposal to devolve those powers to our commmunities instead of letting faceless bureaucts hoard them in Edinburgh. It's a real shame the Gillian continues to refuse to meet with those communities though.
It seems that Tory, Douglas Lumsden doesn’t understand the difference between devolved & reserved powers. He should be advocating for all powers over energy to be devolved or for independence if he truly wants more community influence on electricity infrastructure decisions.
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At #FMQs today @JohnSwinney shamefully refuses to back Scotland’s oil & gas workers by ditching SNP opposition to new North Sea oilfields. Thankfully @KemiBadenoch & @RussellFindlay1 are standing up for Scottish workers.
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I held a debate last week on energy bills and had oral questions yesterday. MPs across the House repeatedly blamed gas for high bills, while I explained it was the fixed costs of renewables now driving up bills. Here is respected independent energy forecaster, Cornwall Insight.
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Today at committee all my ammendments to the Natural Environment Bill that would have given communities a greatersay of new energy infrastructure were voted down. Voted down by none other that #JetSetGillian
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GB Energy has only 9 employees in Aberdeen and most of them are on "loan" from other government departments. Labour promised 1000 jobs for Aberdeen. They lied
So a year from now – almost 2.5 years after Labour’s general election win, when they promised GB Energy would be the answer to #OilAndGas job losses in Aberdeen / North East, we can look forward to… just 100 GB Energy jobs. We are losing that weekly from the oil & gas sector.
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27 years of waiting could come to an end tonight. Come on Scotland, let’s do this! 🏴⚽️
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SNP & Labour hostility to North Sea oil and gas have driven up energy costs and driven out jobs. Grangemouth, Mossmorran and countless Scottish workers are paying the price. It’s time they ditched the ideology and backed the resources here that keep our lights on.
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It's unanimous — the full @AngusCouncil has voted to OBJECT to the Kintore to Tealing 400kV overhead line application by SSEN under Section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989. Game on with Scottish Ministers
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Who would pay for the electricity grid in an independent Scotland? An incredibly important question, which was completely ducked by the latest independence paper. So I asked what Scot Gov’s position is. The answer (more or less): “we have no idea” This is just pathetic.
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Great letter in the Press and Journal by Ian Lakin about Labour's destruction of the North Sea industry and one of mine in the Daily Record. @mgshanks @BrianLeishmanMP @michaeljmarra @DLumsden_MSP
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The Budget will be decisive for the future of our North Sea #OilAndGas sector. Last week I joined Shadow Chancellor @meljstride, @OEUK_ & energy companies for a very sobering discussion. The Energy Profits Levy is strangling jobs, investment & UK production. It must end. Now.
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Accelerating the decline of our oil & gas sector is hurting investment, jobs, growth, and our energy security. If we still need oil & gas, it’s common sense to use our own. That was my message at the NE Scottish Conservative conference with Dave Whitehouse and David Duguid.
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Great to have @MelJStride in Aberdeen on Friday at @OEUK_'s offices to hear directly from the oil & gas industry about the challenges they are facing thanks to Labour & the SNP. The @ScotTories will always be a friend to the industry and they have our support at every step.
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The loony left wing parties in Holyrood just don't get it. It's just common sense to drill our own oil and gas and support our economy, our public services and the thousands of jobs it creates.
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Oh great! Higher electricity bills for years to come to pay for the £33bn
£33 billion investment plan from @SSE is a huge vote of confidence in our clean power mission. Helping transform our electricity transmission network to connect clean homegrown power to where it's needed and supporting jobs in this booming sector. https://t.co/VGTEDDhl3a
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