Oil Workers

Worked in the oil machine for forty years and is now the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union’s regional organiser based in Aberdeen.
He has fought for better pay and conditions offshore for decades: "There is probably no-one better qualified to run the rule over industry safety and the often uncomfortable road which it has travelled." (Energy Voice).
Jake accepts that the oil and gas industry needs a Just Transition, but worries that opportunities to build new industries onshore in decommissioning and renewable supply chains are being missed: "that’s my biggest fear — where is this transition and when’s it happening?"

A historian who has studied the role of energy workers across coal, oil and gas, and nuclear industries and the communities and cultures that they sustain.
Wants the labour, supply chains and environmental impact of the oil machine to be more visible: "The assumption is that energy will be cheap and abundant and there’s not very much thought about where that comes from."
Old ideas about the affluence associated with the oil machine are out of date, but oil is still "an iconic part of Scotland’s historic cultural and social landscape."