I see that they've started extracting oil from fields to the west of Shetland. The oil there is expected to last some forty years - which, in a sane country, should be more than long enough for us to vastly improve the technologies involved in collecting renewable energy and thus leave us sitting pretty on an absurd wealth of energy.
Unfortunately, the UK is quite manifestly not a sane country. So expect to see this bounty go the exact same way as in the 80's - squandered by a Tory government, mostly on tax cuts for their rich mates. Though I daresay this windfall will also be used to provide the "Brexit dividend" that the government so desperately needs to find.
(Of course, crazy conspiracy-theory independence supporters did suggest there might well be oil in the Clair Ridge fields. But I'm sure that's just a complete coincidence. One might even call it 'miraculous'. (In fairness, I was off by about four years.))
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