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It s scotland s oil was a widely publicised political slogan used by the scottish national party snp during the 1970s in making their economic case for scottish independence. An oil exploration company has hailed the largest undeveloped discovery of oil in uk waters, to the west of shetland in scotland. There followed more than a century of the shale oil industry, which employed thousands and whose fortunes ebbed and flowed with industrialisation and two world wars. The forgotten villages that were at the forefront of scotlands first oil rush were celebrated recently during the wat if. The oil price and scotlands independence full fact. Oil shale production in scotland peaked in 19101912 with more than three. Shale trail will put spotlight on scotlands first oil rush the herald. An independent scotland, separatists argued, would be far better off and far richer than it would as a small part of a united kingdom. Sep 18, 2014 first, production in the british north sea peaked in 1999 and has been dropping rapidly.
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