What is Happening to Scotland in the Name of 'Green Energy' plus more migrant hotel protests in Falkirk and other bits of news.
Green energy - Net Zero - What is Happening to Scotland?
There was a time when Scotland was the centre for UK oil and gas production from North Sea oil and gas fields. There was a time when the SNP campaigned under the slogan "It's Scotland's oil" remember that?
So what has happened during the last ten to fifteen years?
Ed Miliband, the Labour government's Energy Secretary, is a noted enthusiast for 'Net-Zero' and green energy projects, more often than not he will attend press interviews on some new project site posing for photo opportunities wearing a hi-vis jacket and a white hard hat, but with little if any practical knowledge of the on-going work.
So much for his leadership of the grandly titled Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, because energy costs in Scotland and the rest of the UK are some of the highest prices in Europe.
It is the Labour government's pursuit of 'Net-Zero' that has halted North Sea oil and gas exploration and has forced the closure of oil refineries in Grangemouth. Foreign owned oil and gas companies have pulled out of Scotland.
Although Ed Miliband repeats his mantra of a future of 'green energy jobs', pointing at the construction of off shore wind farms and solar panel farms on inland sites, the reality is very different to Miliband's 'vision'.
It seems that Miliband wants to install a giant, floating wind farm out in the North Sea, at least 50 miles north east of Aberdeen. Apparently that wind farm, given the name 'Green Volt' is supposed to supply 'clean energy electricity' to the Buzzard oil drilling platform, which is allegedly the most polluting oil platform still functioning off Scotland.
The Buzzard platform is owned and controlled by CNOOC - the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
It is noticeble that Chinese government owned energy companies such as CNOOC are calling the shots and the direction of investments. Not only that, but the Chinese company is now in control of the biggest oil fields in UK waters and ships all the oil it extracts directly to China, no oil from CNOOC sites comes to the UK mainland.
Ed Miliband's 'Green Volt' project was to receive a massive government financial subsidy funded by the British taxpayer. But the Chinese corporation has backed out of the 'Green Volt' plan and its company statement is, " we have been unable to find an investible solution in the current economic climate."
The 'Daily Telegraph' summed up Miliband's 'Green Volt' off-shore project for Scotland, "Miliband needs the project to meet his reckless net zero targets - even though it will increase bills."
The sheer genius of Miliband's plan to spend £2.5 billion on the 'Green Volt' project to build 35 floating wind turbines and to supply all that electricity to a Chinese owned oil company.
According to genuine energy experts, the 'Green Volt' price of electricity will be triple the current cost!
Over recent years in pursuit of Net Zero policies the UK governments have been hammering the North Sea oil and gas companies with massive 78% tax levies, which has flattened investment and none of the oil that CNOOC extracts comes ashore in the UK.
Consider this - ten years ago the North Sea oil fields operated by CNOOC were pumping out 185,000 barrels of crude oil a day, but this summer, June 2025, it was down to 27,000 barrels a day.
Whatever happened to the idea that it was 'Scotland's Oil'?
FALKIRK PROTEST (Again!) - so far it has been three weekends running and during the week.
Although most of the nationwide mainstream media outlets have failed to mention the protests in Falkirk, the assorted Scottish media outlets have given them plenty of coverage, especially by the 'Daily Record'.
"Third weekend of protests outside Falkirk asylum hotel"
"Four people arrested after third protest outside Falkirk asylum hotel"
Third weekend of protests outside Falkirk asylum hotel
"Police stood in the middle of the street as the two sides shouted and chanted at each other, with both playing music to try to drown the other out.
The protest, organised by Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures, started at around 10am outside the Cladhan Hotel, with counter protesters from Stand Up to Racism Scotland also attending. This is the third protest in as many weeks.
It was the latest demonstration held in recent weeks by Save Our Future and Our Kids Futures, which said on Facebook that it reflects the "genuine concerns" of residents. A counter-protest organised by Stand Up To Racism and other groups gathered outside the hotel, while the anti-immigration demonstration was on the opposite side of the road.
Police stood in the middle of the street as the two sides shouted and chanted at each other, with both playing music to try to drown the other out. Nariese Whyte, of Falkirk for All, was one of those who organised the fourth counter-protest at the Cladhan Hotel. She claimed her opponents had sought to attack the hotel, which had a window shattered by a brick earlier this week."
"The Daily Record contacted Mears Group for comment."
"Former Falkirk MP 'appalled' at asylum hotel protests and pleads for locals to remember town motto"
And left-wing journalists are always keen for headlines that put the anti-immigration protestors in a bad light...
"Man charged over 'abusive behaviour' at anti-immigration protest outside Falkirk hotel"
"Falkirk charity helping asylum seekers will continue despite 'hostile' protests"
"Brick hurled through Falkirk asylum hotel window after weeks of protests
Police Scotland said officers are investigating the broken window."
"A brick was thrown through the window of a hotel housing asylum seekers in Falkirk following a string of protests.
The Cladhan Hotel, which has been at the centre of heated demonstrations for weeks, was targeted in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Two days earlier hundreds of pro and anti-immigration demonstrators held a protest - the third in a number of weeks.
Police Scotland said officers are investigating the broken window."
A brick was thrown through the window of a hotel housing asylum seekers in Falkirk following a string of protests.
The Cladhan Hotel, which has been at the centre of heated demonstrations for weeks, was targeted in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Two days earlier hundreds of pro and anti-immigration demonstrators held a protest - the third in a number of weeks.
Police Scotland said officers are investigating the broken window.
Reacting to the incident at Bute House, John Swinney said: "I absolutely deprecate the throwing of a brick at the window of the hotel.
"I think it's absolutely despicable that should have happened. There will be people in that hotel who will have experienced fear andterror.
"Having seen some of the displays at these protests, I have seen terrible language used on banners, which I'm not going to repeat atthis podium. Absolutely terrible language about people, fellow human beings.
"And that's designed to cause fear and alarm, and I'm appalled by it."
Local anti-racism group Falkirk For All described the attack as "an act of intimidation and should be universally condemned by all".
The former town centre hotel has been used by the Home Office and its contractor, Mears Group, to accommodate asylum seekers since 2022.
Tensions have been rising in the area after Afghan asylum seeker Sadeq Nikzad, who was housed in the Falkirk hotel, was jailed for raping a 15-year-old local girl during a harrowing daylight assault in the town centre.
Anti-migrant group Save Our Future & Our Kids Future have organised rallies outside the building, claiming they are standing up for Falkirk families. Counter-protests have also been organised.
On Sunday dozens of anti-migrant protests waved Union flags and chanted "send them home."
Opposing them were anti-racism groups, including Stand Up to Racism Scotland and the Falkirk Trades Union Council, who staged counter-demos with chants of "refugees are welcome here."
Four people were arrested following the demonstrations.
A 17-year-old male was arrested in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour and issued with a recorded police warning.
Two men, both aged 41, were arrested and charged in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour. The pair were released on undertakings to appear in court at a later date.
A 37-year-old woman was also arrested in connection with a separate matter and released without charge.
Protests outside of hotels housing asylum seekers have also taken place in Perth and Aberdeenshire in the last month.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 12.05am on Tuesday, 9 September, 2025, we were called to a report of a window being broken at a premises on Kemper Avenue, Falkirk.
"Enquiries are on going."
Interesting to note that on those weekdays that locals from the surrounding neighbourhood turn out to protest, there are no left-wing counter protestors. It seems that the paid 'rent-a-mob' types bussed in by the likes of SUTR only get paid to turn up at weekends.
As this blog goes out, the good patriotic folk of Falkirk are getting ready to protest again outside this migrant occupied hotel. If only the government would listen and ship out all those supposed 'asylum seekers' - send them to some place south of the Border for a start!
FALKIRK AWAKE!
ALBA DUISG! SCOTLAND AWAKE!
