SNP MSP will urge Sir Keir Starmer to put GB Energy in Inverness
SNP MSP Fergus Ewing has joined a chorus of business and organisation leaders’ calling for GB Energy to be located in the Highlands.
The Inverness and Nairn representative will write to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish secretary Ian Murray to advocate for Inverness and suggest they meet the local leaders to hear in person the strength of the case.
Similar pleas have been made by counterparts in Aberdeen who want the new publicly owned green power company to be based there.
Writing for The Inverness Courier, Mr Ewing stated: “Inverness never expected to be Europe’s oil and gas capital - nor with respect to my friends and colleagues there, should Aberdeen be the renewables capital.
“So, if logic and rational decision making determines the choice, then the Highland capital should be where this new body is sited and from where it can best operate.”
Last week a group of business and organisation leaders called on the new Labour UK government to locate the headquarters of the proposed GB Energy, a new publicly owned green power company, in the Highlands.
Inverness Chamber of Commerce chief executive Colin Marr, together with Highland Council chief executive Derek Brown, Highlands and Islands Enterprise chief executive Stuart Black are among the group who have written to Ed Miliband, who is the energy security and net zero secretary.
