SPIN DOCTORS: INVESTIGATION IN FERRET TODAY

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Author: Paul Dobson

This story appears exclusively today on the website of the Ferret investigative journal.
Lobbying on behalf of the oil industry by former SNP spin doctors has sparked fears that the Scottish Government could be about to abandon its opposition to new oil exploration in the North Sea.

The Ferret can reveal that a public relations firm run by previously senior SNP officials has lobbied the government for the oil giant, Shell. It has also met with John Swinney and Kate Forbes, pictured above,  before they became first minister and deputy first minister in May 2024.
Campaigners are concerned that the new Scottish Government leadership is considering dropping the proposed “presumption against new exploration for oil and gas” from its energy strategy. They attacked “well paid lobbyists working on behalf of greedy fossil fuel companies”.

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