Negotiations progressing over future of Scottish Highlands oil yard.
Hopes of a breakthrough in the long-standing deadlock over the future of the mothballed Nigg yard were given a boost this week when it was revealed that top-level talks between interested parties are progressing, and that a planning application could soon be lodged.
But a spokesman for one of the principal parties, the giant DSM Group, was playing his cards close to his chest and would not reveal exactly what their plans were. DSM’s Edinburgh-based representative Bryce Stewart told the Journal, “It has taken a lot longer than we would have hoped for. We have spent a lot of time with Highland Council, so we are well positioned. We are getting all our ducks in a row and we would hope to make a planning application quite soon. We have got a lot of people piling up behind us, and that’s all we can say at the moment. We will just have to see how things work out.”
It has previously been suggested that DSM would take on the role of landlord at Nigg.
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