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UK announces help for struggling North Sea oil industry
Yahoo News ^ | 1/28/2016 | AFP

Posted on 01/29/2016 4:27:11 AM PST by thackney

Britain announced Thursday a L250 million (325 million euro, $350 million) package of funding to boost the oil industry in northeast Scotland, which has been hit hard by slumping prices.

Prime Minister David Cameron visited the oil city of Aberdeen and met industry bosses for talks on the current situation.

"Obviously it's a difficult time for the oil industry because of the oil price decline, but what this shows is that the British government is 100% behind this industry, behind Aberdeen, behind Scotland," Cameron said.

"We want to see this port expand, we want to see an energy innovation centre, we want to help Aberdeen to diversify its industrial base," he said.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the announcement and said that the Scottish government would add £254 million in funding to improve infrastructure in the region over the next five to ten years.

Global oil prices fell by more than 30 percent in 2015 and have dropped by another 20 percent this year amid increasing production and weaker demand.

In London, Brent North Sea crude for March, the European benchmark for crude oil, is currently at $34.24 a barrel, down from highs of over $100 in 2014.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: energy; europeanunion; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; northsea; norway; oil; panicporn; unitedkingdom
Please no more tax payer dollars on any bailout.
1 posted on 01/29/2016 4:27:11 AM PST by thackney
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To: thackney

was any tax anywhere ever going to be used for good, besides maintaining a military?

it is money for the oligarchs.

whatever country it is.

what the @#$@# is an income tax anyway? who thought of this?


2 posted on 01/29/2016 4:34:22 AM PST by dp0622
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To: dp0622

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-imposes-first-federal-income-tax


3 posted on 01/29/2016 4:36:02 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

They don’t want Scotland to vote for independence.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 7:26:01 AM PST by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: thackney

Bernie Sanders approves.


5 posted on 01/29/2016 7:32:21 AM PST by Rebelbase (A new batch of harpies has hatched in time for the 2016 election.)
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To: thackney

Erm, you don’t bail the UK out. We are actually in a far healthier economic state than the US.


6 posted on 01/29/2016 8:25:48 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: webheart

Newsflash: we didn’t in Sept 2014.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 8:26:13 AM PST by the scotsman
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