Title page of OER slide share of the Energy focus for EalaCreative.
A number of OER materials were sourced and generated by the EALA team to explore ideas of energy in Scotland and the Arctic.
EALA explored the idea and policy context of a ‘just transition’ in regard of the climate emergency and our global and local need to phase our fossil fuel dependancy whilst ensuring a sustainable ecology, economy and socio-cultural future. This is not an easy task. A slideshare on a “just transition” and some of the questions and challenges it presents for Scotland and for the Arctic was provided here for our EalaCreative taskscaping work by economist and ‘Just Transition’ expert contributor Professor Mike Danson.
Read about the Scottish Government’s Just Transition Commmission here.
See also a link to a March 2023 video recording of Session4: Just Transition Arctic Frontiers.
Example: EalaCreative Energy taskscape
This image above is a view across the Firth of Forth from Culross looking over to the coastal site of the INEOS FPS – Kinneil Terminal, and the nearby town of Grangemouth a place widely known as a site for Scotland’s oil and gas distribution and processing. At this site, like others notably to the north islands of Shetland, and to the sites along the north east of Scotland’s mainland, fossil fuels – crude oil and gas – from the North Sea are managed and distributed across the energy supply. This photograhic was taken late in the afternoon of a winter’s day, where the skies had clouded over but the colours seemed to merge with the idea of how fossil fuel energy production merges with our landscape in an everyday way. A quickly taken phone camera shot with the pictuesque backdrop of the small town of Culross behind and the open calm waters of the historic Firth of Forth offered a sense of “near distance” to the industrial nature of our energy systems here in Scotland and elsewhere.
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