The North-east must secure green industries manufacturing jobs or risk losing generations of skills and knowledge - and income - built up in the oil and gas sector, a top economist has warned.
The University of Aberdeen's Professor Keith Bender, The Press and Journal reports, said Aberdeen risks repeating the mistakes that led to Glasgow becoming one of the most underperforming cities in Europe.
While some in the city are still benefiting financially from high-level renewables work, that wealth seems to be reducing steadily and is not being spread out into other communities.
Prof Bender, part of the university's Just Transition Lab, says the situation is shaping up to be a "perfect storm" with similarities to the impact of deindustrialisation in Glasgow.
He explained renewable power sources like wind turbines do not require the same levels of maintenance - and associated employment - as oil rigs.
Prof Bender added: “We haven’t done a very good job of thinking about why we aren’t building wind turbines and solar panels here and utilising the high skills base that is in Aberdeen and around the north-east of Scotland.
“The challenge I think the area really has is that the skills that Aberdeen has now had for a very long time are extremely mobile.
“If people don’t see what the plan B really is, they can take their skills anywhere – both within the UK or abroad.”
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