00:00I don't agree with President Trump about drill, baby drill.
00:03I think we've got enormous challenges about energy,
00:06but Scotland is an energy-rich country
00:08which is developing formidable renewable energy resources.
00:12And the reforms that the SNP's brought in
00:15over the last 19 years in office
00:17have made a huge difference
00:18in terms of the availability of renewable energy.
00:21The problem for Scotland, though,
00:22same problem that we had in the 1970s with oil,
00:25is that we don't see the economic benefit
00:27of the energy wealth of Scotland.
00:29And I want to make sure Scotland's energy
00:31is in Scotland's hands.
00:33Russell Finlay, you like the idea of drill, baby drill,
00:38but why are you pretending that it will have any impact
00:41on our domestic oil and gas prices?
00:44As a starting-off point,
00:45John Swinney is putting a big lie
00:48at the heart of his election campaign
00:50that some idea that independence
00:52will suddenly magically reduce the bills
00:55for hard-working Scots who are seeing their bills go up
00:57when he's not produced a shred of evidence to support it.
01:01What we support is a sensible energy mix,
01:04and that starts with drilling for the oil and gas
01:07that we have in abundance in the North Sea.
Comments