Summary
What can be done to protect people from high energy prices? Sepi Golzari-Munro of The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit and Kevin Keane, BBC Scotland's Environment, Energy & Rural Affairs Correspondent, join Phil and Rajdeep to discuss the current volatile oil and gas markets, and what it means for people in Scotland. Is the solution further North Sea extraction, or could green energy move quickly enough to fill the market demand and save customers some cash?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.9 | It is 12 minutes past two on Thursday the 10th of March. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. It is 12 minutes past |
| 0:21.0 | two on Thursday the 10th of March. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:25.6 | and today I'm joined by. Rajit Sundu, a journalist based in Westminster. And I'm Kevin Keen. I'm |
| 0:30.9 | Environment and Energy correspondent based in Inverroory in Aberdeenshire today. God's own country, |
| 0:36.5 | Inverurie. Got a love it very much. |
| 0:38.1 | Good to have you back on the podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Thank you, thank you, thank you. |
| 0:41.3 | So the war in Ukraine obviously continues to dominate just about every bit of the news, |
| 0:45.5 | and it's increasingly clear that it's going to play a big part in other bits of the news, too. |
| 0:49.7 | The other ongoing crisis, the cost of living crisis, |
| 0:53.3 | as amid these efforts to reduce reliance on Russian |
| 0:55.7 | oil and gas, we're seeing the price of energy and petrol skyrocketing again. |
| 0:59.8 | So to discuss all of that, we're being joined today, not just by Kevin, but by Sepi Golsari |
| 1:04.7 | Monroe from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. Hello, Sepi. Hi there, nice to be with you. |
| 1:09.9 | I mean, I've got to say, I'm quite jealous. I wish I worked for an intelligence unit. That sounds great. |
| 1:15.8 | So we were hoping to have a chat with you today about energy and climate intelligence. Hopefully you can provide us with someone make us sound more intelligent. |
| 1:23.4 | So there's a big debate right now, isn't there, about Russian oil and gas the way that the US, the UK, Europe, everybody is trying to reduce their alliance. |
| 1:31.7 | So how much reliance do we actually have on this in the UK? |
| 1:35.2 | Because our government seem to say that it's not very much at all. |
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