Who got to Wood? Six questions for the thinking voter. Todays hurrahs from NO at the interventionof Sir Ian Wood are as predictable as they are pathetic. Thinking voters will want to ask themselves some questions. 1) Why is his tone and his predictions on recoverable oil so remarkably different today compared to 8 months ago when he published his UK commissoned report on the future of the oil industry? 2) Since when has a difference in prediction of 24 billion barrels and 15 - 16.5 billion barrels been between 45 and 60%? A quick calculation tells you thats a 30-45% difference. 3) Even assuming Ian Woods (sorry, the Point doesnt do,Sirs, Lords or Ladys) recantation of hiw own estimates is correct, since when has 15-16.5 billion barrels of oil been a burden to any nation? Sweden and Denmark manage fine with ZERO barrels of oil. Oil is a bonus for an independent Scotland, not a necessity. 4) Why are the views of Ian Wood so newsworthy, but the views of dozens of oil workers who have blown the whistle on the discovery of massive oil reserves at the St.Clair field scarcely worth a mention? 5) Why does this story come as YES are gaining in the polls again, and on a day an independent welfare report showed Scots, both in work and out have done very badly out of UK Wesminster government in the last 30 years? 6) Who has got to Ian Wood, and how? Finally, to compare and contrast, here is Ian Woods report published by the UK Government from just 9 motnhs ago, putting an altogether rosier complexion on the oil in Scotlands seas. The Point https://gov.uk/government/news/uk-offshore-oil-and-gas-sir-ian-woods-interim-report-published
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:06:51 +0000
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