Options
What will happen to Aberdeen when the oil runs out?
Ovalteenie
Posts: 24,169 Forum Member
✭✭✭
Is Scotland's third city doomed? What else has Aberdeen going for it apart from the oil industry? 
0
Ovalteenie
Posts: 24,169
Comments
Or maybe it could become the centre of Scotland's own fracking boom.
Or it could become a ghost town.
Also fhman2 has been talking about setting up a business for a while
Anyone else find it disturbing for Aberdeen to have a cemetery right in the middle of the city centre?
I was gong to suggest using lard
The dead centre of the city?
The future is fusion or thorium technology, but of course this is not permitted in Alec's vision of a future Scottish sovereign state.
It's Glasgow that is the deep-fried-chippie heart-disease capital of the world
The oil company offices in Aberdeen are simply regional operations centres for the north sea oil fields , the companies are run from head offices in London, Amsterdam, Houston etc. When the oil runs out the Aberdeen offices will no longer be needed and will close down.
Well, assuming there's still any place in UK politics for fat-boy after September, I'd guess that the possibility of Aberdeen ending up as a ghost-town, and Scotland losing the revenue from all these companies, will be enough to readjust his moral compass at some point in the future.
What makes you think that?
The world is likely to go on needing the same (or larger) amounts of energy so it'll always require the same business infrastructure to oversee the industries that provide that energy.
Do you think that companies like BP and Shell are just going to shut up shop when the oil runs out?
*EDIT*
Also, FYI, operations all over the world are managed from the offices in Aberdeen. Not just stuff in the North Sea.
Not actually true. Many companies have their hq's in Aberdeen and besides, when the oil runs out there is still a massive amount of decommissioning work required, plus the world will still need energy. Aberdeen has quite a thriving renewables industry now, for example.
We are always told that all big boy wars these days are over Oil. Alex should declare himself EL Presidency, then just needs to worry the USA and threaten to sell his oil (while he has some) for guns to unmentionables with a suggestion of inviting them in. USA will step in, Station Troops and Moor the 5th & 6th Fleets in the Harbour. Yanks as in previous wars, will spend and boost the local economy. Just sad for the Scottish Lads, when the GI's get the local girls with their real currency dollars, and the usual cigarettes and nylons they can trade in for "favours". Guess you can't have it all.
Flick knives, in Aberdeen?
If anybody dropped a flick-knife on the pavement on Union St, these days, half the population wouldn't stop running until they fell into the sea and the other half would need years of therapy to recover from the trauma of seeing such a horrific thing.
These days you're more likely to be threatened by a solicitor's letter than a knife in Aberdeen.
However, should you drop a 20p piece, be sure to get out of the way sharpish, or be trampled in the rush.
If its in a couple of years time and it is real English Money then this could be doubly true.:(
*Come on ye Reds*
White Pudding supper please.
It will be what it was before.