25 signatures reached
To: SNP MPs
Scottish Waters
Take back the maritime boundary that Tony Blair and Donald Dewar unfairly redrew in 1999 giving England territorial rights to oil and gas fields rightly belonging to Scotland.
Why is this important?
Under an independent Scotland the revenue from the oil and gas fields would enhance the Scottish budget. The pre-1999 border was already favourable to England but Tony Blair pushed through the change to maritime waters underhandedly just before devolution to Scotland, thereby giving England rights to revenue from oil and gas fields in those waters, in case Scotland pushed for independence.
Read more here:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives2012/01/scotlandengland-maritime-boundaries/
Read more here:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives2012/01/scotlandengland-maritime-boundaries/
