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Offshore wind farms contracts could stay in Scotland

NEW leasing rules for offshore wind farms could keep offshore contracts in Scotland, ministers said today.

The Scottish and British governments convened a summit amid concerns that Scottish supply chain companies are losing out on work, jeopardising hundreds of skilled jobs.

The furore followed the mothballing of the Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab) yards in Fife.

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