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First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the Scottish Government is “considering joining” an alliance of nations committed to ending drilling for oil and gas “in the not too distant future”.

But the First Minister has faced criticism after Scotland was not confirmed as a founding member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) – formally announced by the Danish and Costa Rican governments at COP26.

Alongside Denmark and Costa Rica, the BOGA features France, Greenland, Quebec, Ireland, Sweden and Wales as core members and California and New Zealand as associate members.

The BOGA will seek a managed phase-out of oil and gas production to align with Paris Agreement goals but none of the members has a substantial production of oil and gas.

If Scotland does join the coalition, it would be the first nation to do so that heavily relies on oil and gas for its energy mix.

For much more The Herald reports.

As Afloat reported yesterday, Minister for Environment, Climate & Communications, Eamon Ryan confirmed Ireland’s new membership of Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) at COP26 held in Glasgow.

The signing by Ireland with this new alliance of governments aims to phase out oil and gas production in line with the existing Paris (COP21) agreement on climate change.

Published in Power From the Sea

Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.