keep in the community and create the facilities for the future.? Subsequently, the council?s representatives managed successfully to make their case to the UK government in London, which resulted in the [...] potentially huge developments in the renewable energy generation sector likely to be materialising during the next few years, Shetland will continue to play a major role in the UK?s energy provision. While [...] with the major industrial development taking place in one of the UK?s remotest and rural communities, it is worth noting that when oil was first found in the northern North Sea, some 30 years ago, many
local authorities in the UK can?t afford, like ? a network of welfare centres, which are effectively old folk homes, built in Shetland?s more remote areas to allow vulnerable people to stay in the community; [...] have been drilled in the Faroese sector, and none was successful. Also, it has been made clear by the Faroese authorities that it was their intention to land Faroese oil in Faroe in an attempt to gain [...] of by-passing both island groups. Only in October, Sullom Voe Oil Terminal received a major boost, when BP announced in Aberdeen that the company and its partners in the massive Clair oil field ? 75 kilometres
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