Should Scotland be an independent country?

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rw101

Scotland also has 60% of the EU's natural resources

This is classic campaigning. Take a truth, massage it, ignore the real context, then repackage it as a truth.

Scotland does not have 60% of the EU's natural resources. It has 60% of EU proven oil & gas reserves. But that completely ignores the fact that the energy industry is not EU-bound. Apart from all the other non-Russian suppliers, European energy supply depends to a considerable extent on non-EU Norway, which has over ten times Scotland's natural gas reserves and over three times its oil reserves.

But never mind, now the Yes campaign has scored another killer point.

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But the statement is true, isn't it? And it represents a substantial amount of oil, does it not? And there's nothing in that statement that denies any of the other information you've cited, is there?

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