What determines a freeport’s legacy
A freeport’s legacy in the Highlands is never decided by the day it opens, or by the executive appointed to run it. It’s decided by what’s still standing in the businesses around it five or ten years after the ribbon gets cut: whether the accountant, the childminder, the transport firm and the apprentice actually got […]
Highland Community Benefit and the Energy Transition: The Highlands Needs Action, Not More Words
Yvonne Crook was at the Pipeline and Places event in Inverness this week. She has seen what genuine community participation in development can produce. She is not willing to wait for it to happen.
The Green Freeport and the Sceptics. They Were Right to Challenge.
When the UK Government announced Freeports in 2020, the reaction in Scotland was mixed at best. Not because the idea of targeted investment incentives is inherently bad. But because the history of special economic zones around the world gives any thoughtful observer reason to pause. Tax havens dressed up as enterprise zones. Deregulation by the […]