Listen: Oil professor critical of decommissioning deal
Is it fair that up to half the bill falls on taxpayers?
Decomissioning's on the agenda in Aberdeen this week - but is it fair that up to half the bill falls on taxpayers?
Professor Alex Russell from RGU says tax breaks mean we effectively pay half the cost of closing down old oil and gas fields.
He thinks the companies who've made the profits over the years should stump up more:
It comes ahead of the Decom Offshore conference at the AECC on Wednesday 25th May.