But there has been a definite shift over the summer in regards to the North Sea, with calls to drain every last drop of resource becoming a common talking point. This would lead to the extraction of new reserves of fossil fuels and extend the oil and gas sector in the North Sea. Aberdeen South SNP MP Stephen Flynn responded to the news by calling for Miliband to change Westminster’s oil and gas regime. Under Nicola Sturgeon the party was much more vocally opposed to oil and gas drilling. The issue of North Sea oil and gas certainly isn’t going away, with the transition to renewable energy a key policy of the Scottish Government, and hundreds of jobs on the line.