LONDON — Britain’s green revolution is coming for oil and gas workers — but a lack of clarity from politicians is leaving them in limbo.
In Westminster, Labour has promised to ditch reliance on fossil fuels in favor of solar farms and wind turbines. That means phasing out environment-wrecking oil and gas drilling in the North Sea — good news for the planet but deeply unwelcome for the thousands of people who rely on jobs in the industry’s traditional Scottish heartlands.
Worse still, experts say those workers have no idea what is about to hit them.
“The workers in Aberdeen did not think that oil and gas was going to decline,” Emma Pinchbeck, who advises ministers as head of the independent Climate Change Committee, told MPs earlier this year, after a visit to the heart of the drilling industry in northeast Scotland.
