FPT Simply wrong in every aspect. We are currently abandoning fields in the North Sea with more than a billion barrels of recoverable oil in each. Because of political decisions not economic ones. Mu… (View Post)

On previous thread Petercairns sais: "It;'s also worth noting that the International annual rate of jobs decline in mature oil fields is set at somehwere between 2-4% so from 1980 to 2030 t… (View Post)

FPT Not compaction. That was identified as an issue about 30 years ago and they put the low fence up to stop people crowding around the tree. Apart from special projects like the acorn collecting. Th… (View Post)

Nah. The whole of the Aberdeen economy lives or dies on oil and gas. You only have to look at Union Street or Rosemount to see how disastrous the last few years have been for the city. (View Post)

Yes. Therefore numerous archaeological features dating to the late saxon through to the Tudor period which are used to date the trees and which are used along with palynolgy to rebuild a palaeoenviro… (View Post)