look no further than the film Local Hero, a huge hit in Britain when it opened in cinemas across the country in 1983. One scene in particular struck a chord with people here. The Hollywood star Burt Lancaster [...] 30,000 in 1901 to just 17,000 in 1971. »One of the most important benefits of the oil era, and one often overlooked, is the way it restored confidence in the people of Orkney,« he said. »Until the 1970s [...] glow for the past 25 years - a sight as familiar to residents as the stars that fill the clear skies above the islands. Islanders treasure the winter spectacle of the aurora borealis. But the source of

sanction in 2001. That came symbolically when, in November that year, Energy Minister Brian Wilson gave it the green light. Phase-1 concentrates on the core, Graben, and Horst segments in the southern [...] be the end of a 27-year haul, given that Clair was located west of Shetland in July 1977. Development has been shelved at least once. But now the project is unstoppable, with construction past the halfway [...] southern area of the field, with estimated oil in place of approximately 1.75billion barrels of which 287million might be recoverable over a 24-year period. Depending on how Phase-1 works out, further development

disruptive to be good for us.? However, the debate in the islands quickly focussed on whether the oil harbour and the ground the terminal stands on should be in public or in private ownership, he said [...] to come anyhow, and the more we could control and be part of the development, the more money we could keep in the community and create the facilities for the future.? Subsequently, the council?s representatives [...] their case to the UK government in London, which resulted in the Zetland County Council Act 1974, a unique piece of UK legislation that gave the islands the control over its waters and led to the present set-up