Government urged to ban ship-to-ship oil transfers

The Scottish Government has been challenged to “get off the fence” and publicly ban controversial ship-to-ship oil transfers in environmentally sensitive waters such as the Moray Firth.

Holyrood ministers were urged last night to use their existing powers to introduce a moratorium on new applications for the process.

The call was made by campaigners against the Port of Cromarty Firth’s bid to shift up to 180,000 tonnes of oil, four times a month, between ships anchored in the dolphin-populated waters near the South and North Sutors.

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