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sharp but you can do the same thing with php depending on you're using quickbooks or you're using any kind of other application or system to do that this is the kind of stuff that puts the money in pocket guys a lot of you guys are familiar with other great planes or accounting system this is another project you can do um number eight converting old web uh wordpress websites a lot of websites are out there um even older versions of wordpress need to be updated they run slow they have zero integrations with their current web stack these are opportunity guys even though they got a nice looking website it runs slow no integration it's just the over um overpaid they just overpaid for uh online pamphlet essentially we want to help them out with that guys so this is a very important thing that you can do to also put some additional money in your pocket number nine marketing tracking um i do a lot of this stuff with active campaign they want to be able to know what the trends on their uh site 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The next item of business is members' business debate on motion 13815, in the name of Liam McArthur, on Scotland's marine energy industry has potential to grow. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. May I ask those who wish to speak in the debate to press the request to speak buttons now? I call on Liam McArthur to open the debate for around seven minutes, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Back in February 2015, I led a similar debate to this one on the future of Scotland's wave energy industry. At the time, we were ruling from the sudden demise of Palamis in aquamarine power and what appeared to be a crisis of confidence and even existential threat to the future of marine renewables. I took the opportunity to remind the chamber during that debate of the many reasons to be proud of what we had already achieved, including world firsts and world onlys, and confident about what could be achieved in the future. I called for bravery, vision and commitment from ministers and politicians north and south of the border. That is a call that I repeat here this afternoon at what Scottish renewables is described as a critical juncture for the marine energy industry in this country. I am very grateful to all those who signed my motion to allow this debate to take place, and I am particularly grateful to colleagues who are at the time to contribute to what I hope is a constructive and productive exchange of views. There are undoubtedly seriously challenges facing the wave and tidal energy sectors, and those should not be underestimated. I will return to this shortly and look at what might be done to mitigate or overcome those challenges. First, it is helpful to remind ourselves of why development of marine renewables matters and why it matters that we see it develop here in Scotland. Scotland, of course, has played a leading role in setting stretch in climate change targets. That has been achieved on a cross-party basis, and as new climate change legislation begins its journey through Parliament, I am confident that we will see the same consensual but ambitious approach taken again. Any future targets will, of course, require the further decarbonisation of our energy system, while focus, quite rightly, will be on the areas of heat and transport where too little progress has been made to date. We also have a way to go when it comes to generation. In that context, a mix of technology, including storage, will be needed, and I believe that wave and tidal energy have an important role to play in that future energy mix, helping to displace carbon generation from the grid. That belief stems from a view that we should be playing to our strengths, and marine renewables certainly does that. It plays to the strengths of our natural resources. Scotland is home to 25 per cent of Europe's tidal stream and 10 per cent of its wave resource. It plays to the strengths of our academic research base. Our universities are genuinely world leading in the expertise that they have developed over the years. For me, Harriet Watt university exemplifies that, and I say that as a Edinburgh university graduate myself. I will be hosting a shameless plug for the reception on 3 October, which will showcase Harriet Watt's interdisciplinary work on the blue economy, on how we balance the different, sometimes competing uses of our marine environment in sustainable ways. Through its strongness campus in Orkney, which hosts the international centre for island technology, Harriet Watt has been in the vanguard on marine renewables. We have recently taken a lead on how green energy systems are managed, including crucially the use to which that energy is put. All our universities have contributed to our other great strengths, namely the skills and expertise within the supply chain. Again, ICT provides a perfect illustration of that, producing graduates at the forefront of Scott renewables achievements, a company whose tidal stream turbine recently clocked up over three gigawatt hours of renewable electricity in the first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre. Indeed, EMEC itself is a further example of where Scotland and Orkney has taken a global lead in marine renewables, offering the means for developers to test their devices at scale and in a real-life environment. Those key strengths in research, supply chain and natural resources should give us cause for optimism—optimism about realising our climate change ambitions. Optimism, too, about the potential job and wealth-creating opportunities, not least through exporting products and services internationally. The offshore renewable energy catapult recently published a report underscoring that potential and reinforcing the fact that the economic benefits could and should be felt most significantly in coastal and island communities. However, that optimism must be tempered by a recognition of the challenges facing both our wave and tidal industries. As Scottish Renewables pointed out in its briefing, there is currently an absence of policy certainty in viable routes to market for many wave and tidal technologies. In the case of wave energy, we have obviously seen a retreat back into the lab and a move away from funding for specific companies and arrays. Sensibly wave energy Scotland is attempting to support R&D that will benefit all developers and avoid cost duplication of effort. That serves to illustrate that we are talking about technologies that are still at the innovation phase. Even tidal energy projects, currently much further along the road in their development, fall into this category. Scottish Renewables argued that tidal stream is on the brink of developing from pre-commercial to fully commercial arrays, but cost reduction is still needed. We need to see that reflected in the support that is made available, particularly from the UK Government. I will not repeat the criticisms that I and others have made of the UK Government's seeming ambivalence to renewables since 2015 in contrast to the strong support provided by my Liberal Democrat colleague, Davey, during his period as energy secretary. However, inviting tidal stream projects to bid against offshore wind for contracts for difference makes no sense. Both may constitute marine renewable developments but only in the broadest sense. A competitive mismatch on this scale simply risks seeing tidal developments throttled at birth. A much better approach would be to challenge tidal and in due course wave developers to bid against other technologies, including storage, in an innovation category. That would also chime, I think, with the UK Government's stated and welcome commitment in its industrial strategy to promoting innovation. I have hopefully managed to persuade colleagues on the Conservative benches about the merits of such an approach and that they will now agree to join in making representations to the UK Government along those lines. From our previous discussions on this topic, I know that the minister shares this view, but I would also encourage him to look at what more the Scottish Government can be doing to incentivise innovation in ways that help to bring the commercial deployment of marine renewables closer to reality. Deputy Presiding Officer, let me repeat what I said earlier. The development of marine renewables plays to our competitive strengths, our natural resources, our research and industrial skills and the world lead that we have already established. It provides an opportunity to create jobs and wealth, including in communities such as the one that I represent. It is part of the mix of technologies that will be needed if we are to meet our challenging climate change targets. On that basis, as was the debate in 2015 and I very much look forward to the contributions from others and the minister, I hope that we can send out a strong decisive message from this Parliament about our collective determination to stay the course when it comes to waving tidal energy. Thank you very much. We move to the open debate and speeches of up to four minutes, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I would like to thank Liam McArthur for bringing this important topic to the debating chamber. I note members to my register of interests regarding renewable energy. As we all know, renewable energy is the future. It is the way forward to protect our environment whilst enabling our society to continue. Scottish Conservatives recognise that Scotland must maintain its lead in developing renewable energy technologies, including wave and tidal stream. As an MSP from the north-east of Scotland, I must mention how delighted I have been to see the recent opening of a European offshore wind deployment centre off the coast of Aberdeen by Wattenfell, a feat of engineering, innovation and technology that will produce enough electricity to meet the annual power demand of 80,000 British households. Offshore developments such as that have an important role to play in diversifying the energy mix, as well as the decarbonisation of energy. We all agree that there must be a mix of technologies to meet Scotland's energy needs and climate change commitments. However, the Scottish Conservatives are keen to see an evidence-based approach to the mix of renewables across Scotland. It is clear from the ORE catapult report that the tidal stream industry brings many benefits to not only the job market in Scotland but the wider UK economy also. We support research and development in organisations that are involved in emerging renewable technologies, particularly tidal, to secure a viable route to market. I am sure that members across the chamber will agree that it needs to be done in a way that respects biodiversity and protects seabirds, marine mammals, fish and the marine environment. Despite the Scottish National Party Government stating that it wishes to support marine and tidal energy, it has still not awarded a £10 million prize for innovation that was set up a decade ago in 2008. On the point of the Salter prize, would the member accept that the withdrawal of the 100 megawatts of guaranteed 6 CFD pot money for the marine energy sector has been one of the key factors as to why no developer or no technology has managed to achieve commercial scale as yet and to satisfy the conditions of the Salter prize? Alexander Burnett said that since 2010 the UK Government has allocated over 90 million of grant funding to waive tidal stream technology, so I do not think that we will take lessons that we have not been supporting in the industry. Back to the Salter prize, in 2008, the former First Minister, Alex Salmond, launched the Salter prize in a bid to drive marine energy to generate enough electrical output commercially for at least two years in Scottish waters. To this day, the award has not been handed out with no light at the end of the tunnel. The prize has been unable to attract a sufficient number of candidates, despite Nicola Sturgeon insisting on redrawing the criteria to redress the issue. In the meantime, two major competitors have gone bust. The scheme remains under review, with experts, civil servants and the industry in disagreement over relaunch and its cost. With members of the expert committee overseeing the challenge, having to ask for up-to-date analysis of the marine energy industry to inform their deliberations, it is unclear why Nicola Sturgeon is not willing to find an outcome that benefits the sector, rather than leaving it in limbo. I know that my fellow member, Liam McArthur, has spoken about this before, and we join him in his calls for the SNP Government to either drop the prize or finally deliver for renewables. The Scottish Conservatives remain committed to low-carbon and the mix of renewables, but we are using an evidence-based approach that does not hinder any area of development. We will continue to work with members across the chamber to ensure a greener energy system. Are we all quiet now? Have David Torrance followed by Lewis MacDonald? Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank Liam McArthur for bringing this motion to Parliament today, and for raising the profile of tidal and wave energy and the benefits that it has on our environment, our local economies and our wider national economy. I would like to start by looking at the importance of these types of renewables to our future. Renewables are absolutely vital to our drastically reducing our carbon footprint. As we move away from using fossil fuels, tidal and wave energy are key to fulfilling and maintaining our nation's energy requirements. If we do not properly utilise the renewable sector that we have, we will simply be unable to continue to sustain the energy usage that we currently enjoy. Furthermore, in order for us to remain as world leaders in this sector, we must continue to invest in both research and development relating to the wave and tidal energy and the construction of wave and tidal power stations. The Scottish Government has an outstanding record in delivering investment through the Wave Energy Scotland, which was requested before 2014, for the development of wave energy technology in Scotland. Conversely, whilst we in Scotland are investing, UK Government is more focused on nuclear energy and in fact is backtracking on investments that it promised in the tidal energy field. UK Government has rejected the plans for a Swansea tidal lagoon, which would have been the world's first tidal lagoon power station should have went ahead. It would have preferred the UK to the top of the league in the world-leading industry. We cannot leave it to UK Government to take Scotland forward in tidal stream and wave energy industries. We are moving on to look at the economic impacts of investing in these renewables. According to a report by offshore renewable energy catapult, wave energy could contribute £4 billion to the UK economy and 8,100 jobs by 2040. Tidal energy could contribute £1.4 billion and 22,600 jobs. That is a community total of £5.4 billion and 30,700 jobs that could be brought into the UK, particularly Scotland, Wales and the south-west of England, whilst preserving our environment and becoming a world leader. Scotland alone has 25 per cent of all Europe's tidal resources, and if enough research and development was conducted, we could become a major world player and exporting green clean energy and its valuable technology to the global market. Our tidal fabrication of bi-fabris is better known, which is based on my constituency, built by the oyster wave energy converter, better known as the oyster 800 tidal device. The device was located in the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney Islands. EMAC is the first and only centre of its kind in the world to provide developers of both wave and tidal energy converters with a purpose-built accredited open-sea testing facility. EMAC is a not-for-profit company. To date, around £34 million has been invested by the Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise of Carbon Trust, the UK Government of Scottish Enterprise, the European Union and Orkney Islands Council. This has ensured that Scotland retains a leading role in the development of marine energy, and through this investment has been able to award 84 contracts and has been involved with more than 177 separate organisations across 13 different countries. To conclude, Presiding Officer, I would once again like to thank Liam McArthur for securing us with a debate. I hope to see tidal and wave energy sectors continue to grow from strength to strength, as they will have an important part to play in the renewable sector, and our targets have 100 per cent of electricity generation coming from the renewable sector. Paul Lewis MacDonald, to be followed by Matt Ruskell. Thank you very much, and I too congratulate Liam McArthur on securing another debate on marine energy. His persistence is to his credit, and much the same could be said for many of those involved in the sector itself. Such persistence and optimism are well founded. They are based, first of all, on the far-sighted decision back in 2003 to establish the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, with backing not just from Europe but also from ministers, both here and at Westminster, from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, as we have heard and from Orkney Islands Council. Emech did not so much address a market failure as represent a market intervention, seeking to stimulate a potential new energy industry in which Orkney and Scotland and the UK could aim to achieve first mover advantage. Up to a point that it has proved to be, as Scottish renewables pointed out in their briefing this week, more wave-entitled devices have been developed in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland than all the rest of the world put together. Emech takes a lot of credit for that enterprise approach. It is only right to acknowledge that the last 15 years have seen ups and downs for marine energy. There have been false dawns and disappointments, as well as exciting innovations and technological breakthroughs. Perhaps premature talk of a marine energy boom a decade ago did the sector no real favours. However, the hard work has gone on nonetheless. Alexander Burnett mentioned Wattenfall. Just as marine energy innovation was getting under way in Orkney, a parallel development was taking place in the north-east. The Aberdeen renewable energy group got up and running in 2002 and it soon identified an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay as one of its central ambitions. That seemed just as challenging at the time as achieving commercial viability for wave or tidal energy in Scotland's islands. After 15 years of hard work and ups and downs, it was great to see many veterans of Arag sail out of Aberdeen aboard a Northlink ferry for the official opening of the Aberdeen Bay wind farm by Magnus Hall, the chief executive of Wattenfall and by the First Minister. That event proved that a vision for offshore renewable energy can be delivered if the commitment is there and the right commercial developer comes forward to invest in the right project at the right time. Aberdeen Bay now boasts the world's biggest wind turbines. Like Emich, the project has benefited from support, financial or otherwise, from both local and national government and from Europe. Where Orkney boasts the European Marine Energy Centre, Aberdeen is now home to the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, and in addition there are innovative new technologies also being pioneered off the coasts of both Buckingham and Cincardinshire. The very success of offshore wind is part of the challenge for wave and tidal energy. Wind developers have had the costs of building and installing turbines in recent years. That means that, in spite of the good work in driving down costs that have already been achieved in wave and tidal, they have become relatively less competitive in the short term in spite of their best efforts. However, Scottish Renewables also pointed out that ancillary benefit of offshore wind deployment is a reduced cost of capital for the wave and tidal sector, too, and it is precisely access to capital that is needed now for tidal energy in particular to move to the next phase. Liam McArthur talked about UK Government support needing to recognise that these are not yet commercially mature technologies, and I think that that is absolutely right. However, tidal turbines are in the water producing power. Wave has lost some momentum in the last couple of years, but with the right technical progress, it can move forward, too. Unlike offshore wind in Aberdeen Bay, marine energy in Orkney and across Scotland has huge potential. With continuing persistence and backing from investors and from government at every level, it can deliver another step change for renewable energy. If it does so, I think that we will be able to celebrate even more progress the next time we come to have the debate. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank Liam McArthur for bringing forward the debate and for being one of the Parliament's key champions on renewable energy. I first met him at a marine energy conference over a decade ago as I was heading out of the Parliament and he was getting his feet under the table for the first time. During the last decade, we have witnessed many ups and downs in the sector. Ocadian images of sea snakes, oysters and all manner of sub-sea turbines have graced our TV news programmes, but the routes to market and full commercialisation have often been played with financial risk and uncertainty, caused largely by subsidy regimes that have failed to support our future energy needs. The opportunity still remains. Scotland still has one quarter of Europe's tidal resource and a tenth of its wave resource. That is not going anywhere, but the real prize, as ever, is to fuse the academic and industry expertise with great testbeds and a pipeline of finance to take projects from small-scale arrays right the way through to fully commercialise technology. The sector has struggled to get to commercialisation because there is a circular problem here. Small projects struggle to attract finance because of the high-fix costs, and yet those small projects are the very ones that are needed to build the confidence to secure the financial support for the larger, commercially viable projects. The story and the solutions are, of course, familiar. When the Burger Hill test wind turbines were spinning in Orkney in the 1980s, the Danish Government stuck the best part of a billion pounds into the onshore wind sector and sucked most of the expertise into Denmark, where the turbine manufacturers could also sell their kit. Denmark was open for business while the UK was shut. Of course, it was not always like that with our industrial strategy. We used to be proud of our companies and were not afraid to put the best part of a billion pounds into Rolls Royce in the 1970s, a move that enabled them to develop engines that went on to provide the backbone of a £7.4 billion global business. However, private investors need to see leadership from government and certainty that policy is not going to change from year to year. The demise of the renewable obligation has been largely disastrous. Marine energy is unfairly being asked to compete with offshore wind technology, which is 20 years ahead and has had the time to evolve and deliver substantial cost reduction. Our renewable energies should not be forced to compete with each other through contracts for difference because we need an energy mix that can develop over time, bringing in technologies that complement each other, harvesting different sources of renewable energy. That is why the Westminster Government must bring in a ring-fenced CFD from Marine, because it is important to back the winners and the proven technology that is cost-effective, but not to give up on an entire source of energy that is just sitting there, untapped in our oceans. The prize is great. The BVG study for Orcatapol shows that 8,100 direct new jobs could be grown from our industrial heartlands in Fife right the way to the Northern Isles. Our great academic institutions such as St Andrews and Harriet What universities are playing a role and could play a greater role going forward as well, driving the research that can make this industry both cost-effective and environmentally benign. However, those prizes are not won simply with the dead hand of the market at the tiller. It needs the leadership of a UK Government prepared to work hand in hand with the Scottish Government and Industry, albeit sadly without the financial support of European Union structural funds. The economic prize is great. The imperative of climate change and energy security is unavoidable. We must deliver the opportunity of a vibrant marine energy sector in Scotland. The last of the open debate contributions is from Jamie Halcro Johnston. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I remind members of my register of interests? Can I firstly congratulate my fellow Orcadian Liam McArthur on securing today's members' debate on a subject that is of such importance to our islands, but also to my wider highlands and islands region? We have already heard a number of very interesting and thoughtful contributions from around this chamber. As well as hearing some of the details of projects taking place in the waters of the Northern Isles. Just earlier this week, I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel at the Orkney Renewable Energy Forum event in Stromnes with Liam McArthur and also Robert Leslie, who was representing the SNP, but also works for Thor and Orkney Housing Association. What became very clear was not just the opportunities that present themselves in the islands, but also the enthusiasm of local people and the organisations and the good work of bodies, such as EMEC. That was highlighted by calls from certainly some people there of energy tourism and renewables tourism as a potential way of dealing with the interests and renewables from the island and also wider abroad, too. It is no secret that some of the sectors of the highlands and islands economy have waxed and waned across recent decades. As we look at the growing renewable energy industry in the region with both the sense of pride and its current success, we also have to look with a sense of hope for the future. What we now speak of in terms of projects have the potential to be in the industrial successes of the future, providing the clean and renewable energy to support our economy. It is welcome particularly that the UK industrial strategy identified one of our main national priorities as clean growth. That was expanded on through the UK Government's recent clean growth strategy. Clean and sustainable economic growth will be of increasing international importance as countries around the world look towards addressing their international commitments on climate change and decarbonisation. Scotland having a leading role in the development of emergent technologies can have the benefits felt around the world while securing our own domestic energy supply at home. However, while considering the global context, there is a much more local dimension that is keenly felt in communities such as the Northern Isles. One area of repeated concern is how renewables benefit local supply chains and provide a long-term basis for training and skills development within the communities that they are deployed in. Many members will have heard complaints about the need to import materials and expertise in the wind energy sector. New technologies, however, are an opportunity to get things right. That follows on from what Mark Ruskell was talking about. There are benefits not just to the immediate creation of jobs but in building a labour market skilled in technology-based professions. There are also undoubtedly local challenges to be overcome. In Scotland, those are primarily geographical. Transmission remains an issue and is, for quite apparent reasons, felt most keenly on the islands. We know that Ofgem is currently examining the needs case for a new Orkney interconnector, which has the potential to provide enormous boost to the industry locally. Overcoming those barriers to success is rightly an area where Governments should co-operate, and the ability of the UK and Scottish Governments, as well as local authorities to work together, will be vital in making real progress. It is also positive to reflect on some of the achievements of the energy sector itself. In recent years, we have seen a considerable drop in the cost of the number of renewable technologies as they move from being emergent to established. As a result, we see clean energy that can compete on price, lowering costs for businesses and individuals. The motion before us mentions some of the UK-level policy decisions around tidal energy. I understand that, in the interests of Orkney, we have a good level of interaction with the UK Government ministers, both in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Scottish Office. Both ministers recently visited Orkney. There has, of course, been real progress on island on shore wind and a renewed focus on new offshore wind as part of the industrial strategy. In many cases, renewable technologies are demonstrating the sort of innovation that we want to see across the industry, and that should be encouraged and supported. Here in Scotland, we have a range of pioneering examples of projects that have a record of development, collaboration and delivery, all while providing benefits to their communities and to the wider economy. Those attributes will undoubtedly be key to building up Scotland as a global centre for renewables in years to come. My region, the Highlands and Islands, and my home county of Orkney, in particular, continue to play a leading role in developing and making renewables of the future. I call Paul Wheelhouse to respond to the debate on behalf of the Government around seven minutes, please, minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I, too, like others, want to thank Liam McArthur for securing this debate and, indeed, for the wider members of the chamber for contributions this lunchtime. I share Liam McArthur's view that a strong, decisive message being sent to UK ministers and, indeed, to the sector to show our support for the sector is a very welcome outcome from today's debate. There is, of course, a long history of support from marine energy in the Scottish Parliament. Of course, I would argue that the Scottish Government, as David Torrance argued, has a strong track record of support for the sector, while support has perhaps not been so robust elsewhere. We are a maritime nation, and much of Scotland's influence on the world is built on our scientific and engineering heritage. One of the ways that legacy continues is through our approach to the technologies that will power this century and, indeed, beyond. So, as others have indicated today, Scotland is home to the world's leading wave and tidal test centre, the European Marine Energy Centre and Mr McArthur's beautiful constituency, where more devices are being tested than anywhere else in the world, and Lewis MacDonald is absolutely right about that. Indeed, the world's largest tidalary, the major energy, in the Pelin Firth, ultimately may expand to up to close to 400 megawatts in scale, and scale is a key issue that will turn to later. We have to date invested ourselves as the Scottish Government £23 million in that project to get it to the stage that it is at. The world's most powerful 2 megawatt tidal stream turbine, the Scott Renewables SR 2000 device, is a point of pride, as has been said by Liam McArthur, as generated three gigawatt hours of energy so far. The world's largest wave energy technology programme, Wave Energy Scotland, which has to date funded 84 projects and invested £30 million of public support and involving 177 organisations. Those are all great successes. Those achievements and others can be attributed in no small part to the consistent and committed support from the Scottish Government and our enterprise agencies, but most of all to the passion, expertise, investment and innovation of the young industry. I believe that we all share the view that has such huge potential domestically and, indeed, in export markets. Despite those successes, the path to commercialisation remains a key challenge for the marine energy industry, despite the clear potential of the industry to generate economic growth. The challenge of building a large-scale homegrown success story has, needlessly, in my view, been made more difficult by the UK Government's decision to remove a ring fence substitute for marine energy. We need to be clear about that. The former Prime Minister, David Cameron, promised a ring-fenced 100 megawatts of CFD funding for marine energy, and that was, unfortunately, reneged on when there was a change of Prime Minister and Theresa May's Government came in. That was removed in December of 2016. We know that the UK and Scotland in particular has world-leading strengths in wavel tidal energy, and Liam McArthur encapsulated very well the three issues of the academic base, the natural resource and the supply chain that we already have. I know that there are a number of hundreds of jobs in Orkney Islands that already depend on the R&D activity around marine energy. We know that there is a global demand for those technologies, too, particularly if we think of the opportunities in small island states and areas such as the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, where this would be an ideal technology to deliver sustainable energy for island communities and, indeed, at home in our islands. As the offshore renewable energy catapult has demonstrated clearly, and this was referenced by David Torrance and other members, there is great potential for cost reduction and scale is critical here, because Lewis MacDonald mentioned offshore wind and he is quite right. The capital cost is half of investment in offshore wind and the levelised cost has come down substantially. That has been achieved through manufacturing economies of scale and increasing large turbines, yes of course, but also manufacturing volumes going up as we have seen with solar and onshore wind as well. We need to get commercial scale projects in wave and tidal energy to make that happen here, too. As David Torrance and others have indicated, significant job numbers potentially by 2040, certainly 8100, the catapult has estimated for 2040 in the wave energy sector, and potentially 4,000 in the tidal steam sector by 2030, 10 years earlier. What the sector needs now is a route to market to enable commercial scale projects such as the later phases of Magen 2 built out. As Baze was unwilling to do so, I have convened senior stakeholders from across the wave and tidal sectors, as well as the relevant Scottish UK and European trade associations, to consider this issue. The key aim of the Scottish Government's Scottish Marine Energy Industry working group, which is referenced in Mr MacArthur's motion, is to ensure that the sector speaks with one voice, presents a consistent message about its impressive achievements to date, its value to the energy system, the environment and the economy, and the support that it needs to achieve its full potential. That group is now halfway through the scheduled programme of meetings, but I will make it clear that it is still required and happy to keep that group going beyond the scheduled length of its duration. However, the group has discussed recent developments and concerns across the sector with a particular focus on finance issues and important parallels with the offshore wind sector that Lewis MacDonald referenced and our oil and gas sectors in the way that the supply chain operates. The work that is under way to develop the revenue support case and cost reduction pathway that Mr MacArthur calls for in his motion. I look forward to working—I certainly will. Liam McArthur I am very grateful to the minister for taking an intervention. I also should probably declare my interests as an in receipt of feed-in tariffs and RHI support. In relation to that financial support that he is talking about, I know that he shares the view that an innovation pot in terms of providing finance may be a route forward. Is he—can he update the Parliament on any discussions that he has had with UK ministers about that proposal? Paul Wheelhouse Thank you, Presiding Officer. We certainly are keen to support innovation. As I said, we are directly funding already a number of projects, whether through Wave Energy Scotland or directly in the case of Imagen and support for other important companies like Nova Innovation, who have developed the Blue Mole sound array. We will continue to engage in this. It is indeed one of the issues that is going to feature in the discussions of the working group around how we can support the industry. We are restricted in how we can directly support the generation of power itself, so Liam McArthur is quite right. Innovation is one of the areas where the Scottish Government can support technology. I am looking for integrated projects through the Low Carbon Innovation Fund and other routes. We can try and see if we can make more use of the Government's leverage in terms of R&D to support the sector. I look forward to working with the group in the coming months, given the very useful dialogue that we have had to date. I will respond to some of the comments that were made in the excellent debate that we have had today, if I may, Presiding Officer. Certainly, in regards to the points that were made early on by Mr Burnett, I take his point about the Salter prize. We are all disappointed that that has not been awarded yet, but I would ask him to reflect on the point that the withdrawal of the 100 megawatts of CFD and Minima has had a key role to play in preventing projects getting to that commercial scale and therefore capitalising on the Salter prize. I do believe that that is something that, hopefully, we can share as an aspiration. Lewis MacDonald referenced the ups and downs of the industries. He is quite right. There have been a number of those. Clearly, in any new technology, there is a valley of death phenomenon. What we need is to have some light of the tunnel of mixing my metaphors here and have an opportunity for a commercial scale development so that technologists can see that there is an opportunity, having gone through that early stage pre-commercial phase, that there is a commercial route for them. That is what is lacking at the moment. Indeed, we can learn a lot from the development of offshore wind. Unfortunately, as Mark Ruskell very important referenced, we no longer have access to rocks and the ability for Scottish ministers to have rocks that reference the innovative nature of the technology. That is a matter of great regret. We continue to press UK Government to provide recognition of the innovative nature of those technologies and to provide them with their support. I would like to say a little bit if I may. I have overstayed my welcome on the amount of time, Presiding Officer, so I will move to conclude if that would be acceptable to you. Just the reference members to see the number of references in the energy strategy to the deployment of marine energy. In closing, I would like to say that we have made many achievements in Scotland's pioneering wave and tidal sectors. I would like to close by mentioning just a few, if I may briefly, Presiding Officer developments that are relevant to the discussion that we have had. First, the EU-funded NECI programme has nothing to do with the monster in Loch Ness, but everything to do with North Sea solutions for corrosion and energy. Completed a call for applications recently and three companies were successful in the call, Cymic, Atlantis, EMEC and SSE. NECI aims to produce business cases for demonstration projects in the North Sea and a detailed value chain for corrosion across the partners. To look at the lifecycle costs and keep the costs down. Scottish Enterprise has now proved funding for Scottish partners in the last of six transnational projects that are selected by Ocean Energy E-Renet co-fund. The total SSE grant for the six projects—don't worry to the office there, I will pass this note to you—the total SSE grant for six projects is £2.8 million. The total R&D spend, including companies and other funding organisations for those projects, will be around €15 million. Projects will start during the course of this month. Finally, I am delighted that Edinburgh is hosting the sixth ocean energy Europe conference on 31 October. Having addressed the fifth conference and not, I know that this is a prestigious and growing international event that reflects the strong interest internationally in the sector. It is therefore an excellent opportunity to showcase Scotland's marine energy strengths, ambition and appetite to collaborate with our international partners. I look forward to welcoming delegates to Edinburgh and I would ask all year that you look to support the promotion of Scotland's marine achievements during the course of the two-day event. I would say to UK ministers who may be watching that it would be a great opportunity to announce some stronger support for what is potentially a hugely significant sector, not just for Scotland but for the world. Thank you very much. That concludes the debate, and the meeting is suspended until 2.30 pm.


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So this is the train station kind of look like the red guys Black man the traveler today I'll be going to another city UK We go into an area It's famous for its football This is where we are in Houston Houston station Central London and today I'll be going hello. Good afternoon They'll be going to an area. That's a W. Harvard voice That's not like the switch. What's that's a W Oxford University voice called Liverpool It's about three hours in the train From where I am in London, and I'll be going to Liverpool just for I would say a couple hours one of the most expensive trains are paid for one way One of you guys can see 98 pounds in 10p London terminals to Liverpool stations So I'll be networking with a guy called a sack Jones I've been seeing his content on Instagram I've been seeing his content on YouTube So he's a It's a very known youtuber In Liverpool is a scouser So I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna go to some of the most interesting Let's just say The pride neighborhoods in Liverpool Liverpool is known for its culture. It's no Okay for its art for its music, you know the Beatles. It's got a bad side towards it It's got a lot of poverty in Liverpool as well. It's got a very multicultural community as well in Liverpool It's got a lot of interesting characters so join me this adventure I'm London to Liverpool The fingers cost is going to be interesting. We are we're gonna join you. I'm an honorary scouser I'm pretty sure there's multiple scousers watching this. Let me know in the comments if you're scouser, man We're gonna get a lot of things on camera Hello, my friend very good So things cost we're gonna get some people on camera And it's gonna be very interesting just hello to YouTube Hello my friend, okay see you guys in Liverpool This is just like Union Station in Chicago Station it's quite packed In this train station There's a lot of people over here. Look at this all these people all the British look I'm like I'm definitely gonna be doing some of this when I go there It's very helpful you to in educating me on the the landscape of the United Kingdom London All going to another part of the UK interesting Pretty sure a lot of them. I've never seen Someone hold a camera and film a camera around here Look for the toilets the toilets. Let me exit over here. Anyway guys the train is gonna be leaving Trains going to be leaving in exactly 10 minutes. I've got 10 minutes body to look for the toilet I don't know where the toilet The toilets are straight over there, but the train is leaving exactly 10 minutes Hopefully the weather is going to be nice and Liverpool, but look at it. It's a beautiful sunny day in London Central London. Look at this in London, London, Houston. See how beautiful it is. The sun's out But I've got my jogging zone.  You move with crazy right now. Anyway, see you guys in the train in Liverpool Situations Look nice. This is economy. It's a standard. This is standard Just sitting away just sitting away. Thank you. All right. I don't know where I am but I'm somewhere in the train Don't have a seat number seat number How'd you find out the seat number on the tickets? I think you can fit it in any seat. Any seat. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Things cost is going to be available. All right, just video for YouTube Which videos in YouTube? Do I? Do you watch videos in YouTube? Yeah, give you a card. What's your name? Rachel. Wow, I'm here with Rachel. That is W promotion. Hey, Rachel All right, scan the QR code blackman the traveler Instagram I'm gonna go from cool Okay, cool, right the sea discover I'm going to live up or just to document my stay and show people Things cost some really interesting See what happens the train looks a bit half-packed It's quite a lot of people over here. I've got my burrito I Fingers crossed no one's people sitting next to me This is one of my favorite parts of taking a train All right guys right now. I'm on the train. I don't know how long my journey is But all I know I think it's about two hours and 30 minutes Paris London, where are you from? This was about three hours of things cost. I'll get there by six to latest I don't know where I am, but all I can see is green So I'm definitely lot in a in a major city. I'm in a I'm in the middle of the countryside So that's why I am So anyway, I'm gonna continue this video since I learned to live up all so see you guys soon Welcome to the countryside of the UK in England Give bro a shout out next to you You want to be in the camera? Welcome to Liverpool Lime Street station What's going on guys first black mother traveler just made it to Liverpool and I'm here with what's your name? Oh, my name is Zach Jones. I'm a youtuber as well. I've got in touch with black man the traveler Invited them over to my beautiful city of Liverpool Where there are a lot of great people friendly people and a lot of interesting characters now I'm a fan of black man the traveler's videos. I first watched him in Argentina I watched one of Argentina. I watched one of his Pakistan videos.  How many views is that? Yeah, like black man the traveler, man I hope you don't mind me watching this man If you do not want me to watch this and or we put it up like just I take it down Messages one of them got like 2.0 something million views I've seen you know I've actually seen his content me when he was in Morocco He went to a football match in Morocco. Yeah, and he's actually done some modeling He's actually done some other different type of traveling content in different countries So right now I've come to Liverpool and I'm in your city And he's gonna give me insight what it's like to come to Liverpool and yeah, I'd like to welcome all you guys as well We're gonna get the town center. I've just been in for a good half an hour. It's so busy today You're gonna meet some great people and then we're gonna go into we don't call them hoods here We just call them the more dangerous areas. Yeah, we'll be heading into there to have some good conversations What should we okay? Let's go into time. Zach Jones, Liverpool I'm gonna put his Instagram his YouTube channel in the description. So It's just like the main part. Hello One question what's so fascinating about Liverpool Culture and character, okay now you two have to beat what he says He said he said culture and character Music history one more you got a beat his culture and character Oh god, I think the people are just funny people what boom culture character music history Okay Yeah So basically I'm a youtuber from London and he's a contact creator So I'll give you I'll give you a card You can check out my Instagram Maximize your potential Scan the QR code. That's my Instagram my YouTube channels on there. Well, I'm gonna continue this video. Let him do his intro. Hello Yeah, I don't know see you soon in the streets of Liverpool Camera in hand Ladies you okay, what's your names? What's your names?  What's your name? Yes. Okay. Can I ask you one question? You guys watch videos in YouTube All right, so hello your young camera One question. Are you from here or we from all right? I'm not sure question. Um, I'm from London So I'm a content creator. I make traveling content. What's so good about Liverpool? What's so interesting about Liverpool? Why should I come? Hey, this is having a smoothest Riz I've ever seen a Riz packaged in content creator Wrapping paper. It's the best to give it up to you Okay He's at the night life to people with the food restaurant. What else? Wait, wait, what's your favorite all right?  Oh, you gave a different answer. She gave a different answer Why is it a shit? No So I'm not sure question have you been to London before yeah, so yes, no How would you describe London? How would you describe Liverpool? Okay No, it depends where you go. Okay, so you got good them bad basically Okay, I'll give you a business card. You can check out my Instagram and YouTube channel Scandal QR code is my YouTube and that's my Instagram right over there. Thank you. Thank you Have a good day. You too. Bye. Bye. Well, I just met some cool local people Ask them certain random questions exploring Understanding the culture Man, let me see if your Instagram is up. Yo Instagram gotta be one of the greatest Instagram's On planet earth.  How long is this three months ago? So it probably had like 18 Yeah, no, you have to park any Uganda travel vlogger podcast hood vlogs raw adventure not your average blogger. Oh, yeah, you in the game Thanks, sir Yeah, you got it right now. I got check out the rest of your content low key. It's interesting because okay Right, you've got some of the young guys over there smoking a bit of weed Don't want to get them on camera. I don't want to get the monetized on my on my on my channel All right black man the traveler right now. We're in the car, right? Yeah, and we are gonna go to talk with talk stuff Yeah, talk talk talk stuff. We're just driving out of town now heading into talk stuff. It's about Yeah So we're gonna drive to talk stuff and uh, what's in what's in talk stuff? Well, it's a it's a place that is extremely multicultural. It's got a lot of history. It's got a lot of black history Yeah, and anybody who's familiar with your channel knows that you'll be interested in there And it's also where a couple of people suggest All right, well, we're gonna go to talk stuff. He knows it more than me Like you just said, it's a lot of black history. It's a lot of history within that area in Liverpool says it calmed down with the discrimination or is it still mellow? Well, people are terrified about discrimination at the moment Yeah, no, I wouldn't say in that much of a sincere sense I feel like a stars from here. So yeah, I think that just because you don't want to be discredited as human beings You know I'm saying or whatever they want to know people virtue signaling and stuff. I'm not saying Basically, I mean, I don't I don't really play the victim call myself I grew up with a white white side of me family with my own family and I had racism in my own family So I had like Issues but I came from the state where the women's hospital is Right That a state was a raster a state like most of our role models were rasters So like, you know for me, there was like some moral Same within our community over there because they stood no people against class-age robes and all this type of thing So pictures of you from when you were young with the boys actually Vision that is quite got class a class black man class a Class say is we just classified as class a over there, right the travel up. What's your name, brother? I'm not a priest man YouTube YouTube, what's so good about Liverpool? That's motherfucking The cocaine is that motherfucking back knock and don't miss Liverpool.  Everyone's coming in a pint coming up like any single a karaoke. Can you see can I walk in? You gotta go in this is some of the greatest this is some of the greatest content that I might have ever I don't know why it took me so long Oh Well, we're gonna go inside the fire and then I'm gonna finish my video I'm definitely gonna come back to the other area that I was meant to go to Toxworth. I couldn't pronounce it Cockstaff I'll come back another day. Well, let's just go inside and see you see the locals It's Not even a real No, no the cameras on me No, this is for you to you to vlog on Black man the traveler just just change. Oh, isn't that gorgeous? No, no, this is travel content No, no, this is trap just showing people what it's like to come to Liverpool Just Just for one minute 15 minutes of fame my boy.  They definitely turn W's all across the board Liverpool is everything Everything that I have expected. I am not disappointed Thank you Welcome to Liverpool and the video is going to continue another day here in Liverpool. And I'm So the video is going to continue here another day right now is where I am City of Liverpool Yes Me love you why I'll see you guys soon. I'll come back to Liverpool next week Baby boy, we're gonna come back to Liverpool Is that Joe's Liverpool black man the traveler? Thank you Sweat Hi brother, nice to meet you. It's not sure question. What's so good about Liverpool? Liverpool Liverpool's interesting Liverpool's interesting, brother. Okay. Take care, brother All right, peace of love. Why I'm You never walk Never walk 1892 and here we are that man a traveler day number two and I'm outside of Anfield right now, I mean probably One of the most famous stadiums in the world and over here in England Liverpool Mani sauna has left the crowd. So Is that Jones and this is part to my vlog and I'll be going to certain parts of Liverpool And I'll be meeting up with her famous Liverpool youtuber as a female also as a musician and also she works as A stripper I think I apologize for that if anyone but that's what she does So I'll be meeting her later today sat Jones is right over here. He's filming and um, yeah So right now we've come to Anfield Anfield Probably one of the most famous Spots in Liverpool Two famous cops about every ten football club and you've got no football club, but I'm Shared a shared experiences what it's like to come from here in Anfield I don't want to get none of these people all these people around here because 99% of them are tourists I don't want to get tourists on the camera because they're not really gonna understand what it's like to come from Anfield to live in the area like this. So I'm back in the traveler. You want to find a local like myself Zack Jones Discover the streets of Liverpool Recoma's em 1010 is the perfect machine to help bring your vision to life. You actually rewatch this and put these ads This is dedication Right guys, just stopped at the petrol station over here Near Anfield and I've got two amazing girls over here.  Right. What's your name darling? I shan't take what's your name? Nice to meet you as well. So basically I'm black in the traveler.  Okay, you can swear you can swear Her was way way cheaper. How long have you been in the UK for four years? Oh, I'm not Hey, Siri, where is Bermuda to Ireland? Of course In the middle of nowhere You kind of close to you kind of by me She questioned all right you don't have to answer it What it's like to be a color person to live in Liverpool.  I was told that it was very racist. Yeah, everyone. I lived in Nottingham before this and everyone like even taxi drivers as soon as I said that I was Moving to Liverpool. They're like, you know, it's very racist. Yeah, I love over here Like I really think that it's like the most friendly part of England that I've ever been in my neighbor's speed When I came they was like, you know, you need a cup of sugar. You can knock on my door My neighbors in Nottingham literally They will look you in your face and not speak to me. So wow I don't I don't I don't I mean not to say that there is no part that is I just have not Okay How would you describe Liverpool from your experiences? Would you describe the city that's very energetic bubbly food history people culture? How would you describe Liverpool? Like literally in the middle of the pandemic I'm just now getting out and I can kind of explain it. I've been out of time. Okay There's a club called pure it's pretty late, you know outside of that I'm coming to pure What's happy music is it pure It's dance hall. It's not a good, you know, and the one from Liverpool black man the chaff and you're gonna see me in Pure in a couple weeks time I Thank you, right we've got some amazing too beautiful women on camera and they express their feelings Who's that guy? Who's that guy who's that guy the famous one on the wall who's that? No, this one this one six six five The traveler from from London Fake Clementson fake Clements fake Clements They wait wait Okay, so he's a famous he's a famous player Okay, you guys are local you guys are local from here. Yeah, what's your question? What's the famous about and food? That's for YouTube We're getting fun I Someone's gonna get me a season to get to my night I hope you guys enjoy your afternoon Good afternoon, thank you. Bye. Bye. Thank you.  Definitely gonna walk in a random pub. Anyway, see you guys soon in the streets of Anfield Lenar has a hot selection of homes for sale right now throughout Miami-Dade and Broward I'm not fully entertained. Mr. Black man the traveler. You did it Acha, aria with my friends over here in Liverpool, right? So we're not sure question What's so good about Liverpool? Very nice, okay How long have you been in Liverpool for? We have been around two years, two years cheaper comparing to other cities in the UK. Yeah, have you been in other cities in the UK? The London is called here Oxford everywhere I went, but we can live here with cheaper rent and we got enough and more jobs here So we choose Liverpool is better And it's very nice to see and it's a good for traveling and how are the people here? It's nice. The people is nice and the Anfield city means near. Yeah, we just came from Enfield. Yeah So before football games it gets jam-packed in the shop Uh, during the football games you'd be here to look and see It's nice. All right That's how the local shop is I promise you man, when I, hey listen, I'm buying some property in Liverpool I'm about to buy like a little four-flatter Some like apartment building What's going on girls, do you want to get on camera for YouTube? You sure? Up the reds, up the reds Up the reds There you go. Get people on camera. All right. Thank you my friend Take care. All right. Take care, mate. You want to get on camera for YouTube? Oh, you've got to carry a walk-in Listen, chicken biryani Okay. Namaskar my friend. All right. Chicken biryani. Chicken Bar-ni-ani. This is the best chicken biryani This one here I got a lot of Indian food in Chicago, man It's one of my top four things to eat Easily maybe 30 honestly Hello Let's see what's going on here. That's chicken biryani Hello, you saw you saw the best chicken biryani They said that you saw the best chicken biryani. It's true So they saw the best chicken. Right. I'm I'm gonna have a look That's the best chicken biryani How much is it? I need my fresh though. I can't Wait for me. What country for me? I'm here from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka? Okay, uh, Colombo. Colombo, no? Okay, what? Um, Kitma here. Is that the same in Sri Lankan or not? No, this is um... How much is this one? It's $4.99. It's come with the egg and the Rahi Chow this Do you take card? I mean, take only cash at the moment You ain't got cash? No. Damn. Okay. I'll come up next time. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day guys Next time I'm gonna try the best chicken biryani Take care guys. Man, I never had cash. God. I don't have cash man. They only take cash. I don't have card No, they charge. I come here next time Okay, take care of my friend Definitely got to try the best chicken biryani in Liverpool, man. Yeah, no we have to We can go to football game eventually Oh man, and I'm gonna shout, man. United, glory, glory in my United, and I'm filled I'm gonna change it Nah man, not in a million years, man. All right, we're gonna carry on this video Exploring the streets of Liverpool. Zach Jones over here. Thank you. We're going to meet now. We're gonna meet a very nice young girl Who is a stripper here in Liverpool. She's also a musician. She's a dancer On a youtube vlogger. She's pretty much Hello, how you doing?  One question, one question Up the reds or down the reds? Up the reds All right, up the reds Let's continue. Oh, yeah, so Shanta, she's like a female equivalent to me because she makes youtube videos and she makes music I just need to start stripping and then I'll be the male equivalent because she's a really good girl actually She's she makes good music and she makes good youtube content about you know life as a stripper here in Liverpool and I'm gonna go and meet her now Does she? All right, let's go meet Shantel Let's go and meet some more local people. I have one thing to clear up from our previous video though. I'm like, what? I don't know. I feel like I'm in Liverpool right now. I'm having a good time so far I'm having a great time. Just got to the strip club. Oh you at the club? I'm gonna meet this girl. Like I said, Shantel. She's a famous vlogger in Liverpool Also, she's a stripper musician So let's see where it goes. Hello You want to say hello for the camera? Are you camera shy? All right, she's not camera shy right? Let me get her in the camera quickly. What's your name? Stephanie, my name is Amir, but I go by the name is black man the traveler on youtube I will ask you a question. What's so famous about this area where we're standing right now? What's so famous about this area? What's your like about this area? Supposed to people. Okay. The people again, definitely the people. Okay. Her shoes match her hair. She dappered down ain't she? Got the pumas matching the hair Salute. What are they like here? Everyone's definitely, everyone's easy to go on. Is this a pub? No, it's a hairdresser. You like, you're mish. People just do nothing. Mish. Can I have a look or no? Okay, so let's get permission. Sarah has to get permission first. Thank you, Sarah. Sarah, can I come in? All right, I'm coming in. I've got a camera. Okay, what should I pick? Nice and pink. This is exactly like, what's the, what's the, what's the? What's the, the beauty shop that Mish work in and people just do nothing? What is it called? Lavish or something? Okay, all right. So this is going to be a hairdresser's, yeah? Hairdresser's, yes. Okay. Wow. Everyone's going to be open. Monday. Wow. Fingers crossed, guys. What's the, what is the address and the name of the buildings so people can come here? It's 2 York Street, L1. Okay. And it's called Sabella here. Sabella here. Make sure you come here. 2 York Street. L1. Bye. I'm going to give you a business card. You can check out my YouTube channel. Right now you're on camera. Scan the QR code. That's my Instagram. And that's my YouTube channel. The QR code. Oh, God. Bye-bye. And I'll be coming back soon. Have a good day. Thank you for letting me in. Right, let's carry and explore. They're interesting. Those puffs are banned two nights. Because I don't know, they start a week. Could be a number of things. I've seen a hairdresser's. Interesting. Hello. Are you camera shy? Yeah. I'm not going to get them on camera. That's my behaviour. Dang. I could have just been like... Boom. Put the camera straight away. Thank you. Have a good day. No problem. I'm here. Nice to meet you. My name is Blackman. Do I just call you Blackman? You can. I've given permission to call me Blackman. You can call me Filipino woman. There's no discrimination over here. Bye-bye. So this is where I work. It's called Rude in Liverpool. It's the largest strip club in the UK. Sir, what is it called now? Am I going to get a job at SV Academy? Yes, you will if you graduate the program. Wait. No, sir. No females here? Oh, there's no girls there? That resembles the unfilled and stadium when you go down into the... Onto the pitch. That's his eyes. It's very dark in here, guys. Okay. This is crazy. There you go. The boys. It's got the biggest strip club in Europe. This reminds me of... Yeah, it smells nice in here. We used to have a club in Chicago. Look at that. So imagine this. We used to have a club in Chicago called Castle. The building reminds me of it. The structure reminds me of it. It's called Tau now. Tau Chicago. It used to be called Castle. I've never been in Tau. I've never tried. I'm pretty sure I can get in there. All these individual rooms, God knows what happens in here. You've got to be careful. You've got to be super careful. It's a club right there. Pay. Make sure you pay your money. How much is it? Nah, that's where you change dollars and hundreds of dollars. Baba, how much is it in the strip club? About 50 pounds. Baba, it's too expensive. My mate, listen. You're in the biggest strip club in Europe. You're in the road strip club. Baba, listen, I'm from London. I don't have that type of money. Listen, mate, you're in Liverpool. That's about 50 pounds. Baba, how much is it going to cost me to get in the strip club? Mate, I just told you it's 50 pounds to enter the strip club. Okay, Baba, listen, I'm going to give you 10 pounds.   Okay, Baba. And that's how you pay over here. Extortion prices, probably. When you enter some strip club. Someone's had a bit of alcohol. Someone's been drinking. There's bottles. Are we ready? Let's go inside. She's going to take us inside. I want to explore. What's going on in here? Hi. Wow. You're right at home. You know, I'm in Miami now. The amount of money they must be making here must be fortune. Oh, wow. Wow. You have conversations. What is the vibe when you're coming here?  Oh my god. Wow, look at these babies, man. These are very high, huh? Oh, yeah. You've got your selection here, shoes. Wow. These are for strippers. These are more comfortable than normal heels because it's like wearing a shoe that big. Okay, so it's made to look more difficult to walk in than it actually is? Yeah. Okay. You never do that? Never had a need for that knowledge, but okay. You get a bit of that, but everyone sticks together. Wow. It's like a sisterhood. Wow. Look at these guys. Wow, it's very bright in here. This is where the top four dancers reside. I'm going to do my makeup. When the traffic is going to sit down, BBC coming down to interview us, right? Chantelle, how do I look? Do I look sexy? Do I need makeup? You look wonderful. Getting real Karl Pilkington. What episode was that when he went and put makeup on us and give me a real Karl Pilkington vibe? Just make sure you wear a mask and a lingerie before you go out. Okay, what else? A shave. Well, I hardly shaved, but I would shave. Anything else? And also, just put a big smile on and offer the guy VIP. The girl VIP. This is nice. So this is the makeup section. Where the females look sexy and put on their shoes. I'm glad we got a part of it. I didn't even know that there were Latin Americans of the Mexican descent in Liverpool, in the UK. This is new to me. I'm going crazy. He was going crazy. I thought he was going to the hood. I'm going to wash my face. When I get there, I show it. I got you all, man. But this is fire, though. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm in Marfen Street. I think I'm in Marfen Street. Go inside. You go inside first. Hello, mate. How's it going? I'm going to get inside the pub. Quite lively here. I'm never walking. First time being a pub in Liverpool. Hello, you all right? Too bad. Welcome. Off the Scousers. Why don't you recommend people come to Liverpool? I'm not going to lie. This is one of them where I would have walked in and walked out and found something. Look, we're here. Some new gaming machines again. We've got to be 18 and over to play this game. Yes, I'm 18. The gamble, but 16. Don't have no coins. I'll get a drink, but I don't drink alcohol. What am I going to get? I'm not going to get. What juices do you sell? I'm going to produce pineapple juice tomorrow. Can I get a pineapple juice please? Can I pay with card? Is that okay? Thank you. Can I get a pineapple juice? Get my card. And it's a very multicultural city. No. I'll drink it. Is it cold? Maybe not. I'll stick the camera towards me. Are you cold? Are you camera shy? You want to say hello? Hi. Welcome to Liverpool. This is the gripes. There you go. Thank you. Buddy, you did great. Where are you from? London. I've just come to London for the day. Hello. You want to say hello to the camera? This is for YouTube. You want to be on YouTube? What's your name? I'm here. Nice to meet you. You want to speak for the camera? You can hold the camera. You can speak. You can say whatever you want to say. Hello. Say your name. This is great moments. Have a good day. Take care. No problem. I've just had the kid on the camera. That was very interesting. I've got my pineapple juice. Can I get a camera here? Swaps pineapple juice. And a glass? I didn't even know they were so pineapple juice. What do we have? We've got the canned stuff. You got some pineapple juice? You're not drinking? You don't drink? No. Cheers. I used to be a history teacher. I hope you enjoy. Thank you very much. Thank you. I've got my drink over there. Hello. How are you doing? Is there space for me to sit here? Is anyone sitting there? Let me see. I hope you guys have a good day. Is someone really sitting there? No? I've got my juice. What's your name? Dave. What's your name? Sheila. This is for YouTube. Enjoying my day in Liverpool? Cheers. Why would you save that little sip? Pour all of that in that cup, sir. Cheers. Manchester. Manchester. Did you like to reintroduce yourselves? Just good. Gina. Nice to meet you. Pineapple juice. Dark skin. I need to light it up with a little bit of tequila. Scousers. This sign over here caught my attention in Liverpool. It says be like a panda. He's white. He's black. He's Asian. He destroys racism. Scousers have no colour. It's a very important message to anyone that's watching this from here on YouTube. W thumbnail. So that's a very important message that I've seen on the wall which caught my attention. That was very cool. There was no racism over here in Liverpool. There was no place for racism over here. Let's continue this video on the streets of Liverpool. Time me up. We're in some area. Hello. YouTube. Czechoslovakia. Romania. I'm not going to lie. I've seen purple lackey on or some purple lackey or a street chaser. Okay, Bucharest. From Liverpool. Yeah. What's the name of the area? The name of the area. Smith Downey. Smith Downey? Yeah. Are you on YouTube? I'll give you a card. Hello my friend. Very good. Black man the traveller. Scan the QR code. You know, scan the code. YouTube and that's the Instagram. Black man the traveller. I'm going to see the video. Two. Okay. I won't. You just yell. We're going to stop some... We just come to see the area explore. Some questions. Hello my friend. You okay? Okay, very good. Give me one card. I gave you a card. Oh my god, these girls are very cheeky here. What do you care? I'm going to Romania. I'm going to Romania next year. Next month. I'm going to go to Bucharest. I'm going to go to... They have the card. And I'm going to travel and I'm going to film. So you see it, okay? So YouTube Black man the traveller, Instagram Black man the traveller. Hello my friend. Bye bye. Hey brother. He's doing wheelies. Hello. Looks like we're in the main area. Walk down the street over here. Hello. You watch videos on YouTube? YouTube. Hello. Okay to film. Okay to film, no problem. Okay, look where we are. This is for YouTube. Black man the traveller, what's going on? Where he's coming from? London. Take a card. Scan the QR code. This is my cousin. Yeah. This is my sister. What city are you from? What city? It's like a melting pot. So who's seeing us now? Nobody. Black man the traveller. Like 16,000 people seeing you. I'll add to those numbers hopefully. What's your channel? What do you think are the travel around the world? Shit. This is Romania area. This is the Romania area. This is why this reminds me of Chicago so much because it has a lot of different cultures there and then they have neighborhoods broken off for those cultures. This is why I'm getting that vibe. That's why I get that vibe with the Scousers man. I feel them. Pause. How are the Scousers? How does Scousers treat the Romanians? All good, they're very good. What city are you from? Romania is the best. He's just shooting a vlog here. He's just shooting a vlog here. He's just shooting a vlog here. Should we go to the shoutout then? I will, I will. What are you saying guys? Shoutout boys. It's the Romanian area. See the kids over there. Bro trying to stay close. Hold on.  You do what you want in Liverpool. We're having a barbecue over here. Yeah, down there. Go ahead. Do you think there are any misconceptions on Romanians? No. All great. I got some friends in Anfield. See, when I come I'm trying to link up with Patti the baddie man when I slide up there. Matter of fact, I need to do one of his videos. Mark, you know. There he is. You shot LKS. Put, put, put. No problem. L8. The postcards are very funny. In London, I come from East London. It's L8. It's very different. Edmonton. Let me talk myself first. Alright, let's explore. What's going on? The whole gang's coming out over here. This is what I like. How old are you? You're in 25? No, he's not. You're smoking a cigarette? What is it? What's your name? YouTube or something. This is YouTube, Black Manda Traveler. I got my last card. For fuck's sake, take this. We're good. We're here. You're out there now. Yeah. BBQ. I don't want to miss my train in London. If these guys... So you can just pull up to a barbecue in Liverpool and they're just going to be cool with it. I don't know if you and Sam are friends. They might be a bit more like, get out. Hey, what guys? These guys here. We don't know, we've just been speaking with the friends.  Let's get a bit of content quickly. Someone's doing a barbecue. I could tell that they were Romanians because... Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of them in London. So right now we're in a Romanian neighbourhood. Someone's having a barbecue. We're going to get crashed to barbecue. How far is it for me to the train station? Let's explore. Let's see. Hello, my friend. Hello, YouTube. Alright, let's explore. BBQ? There's a barbecue, huh? Alright, let's go to the barbecue. This is... I've got friends from Romania and it's a big part of the culture to just pull up on the street and cook some food. Alright. You can't just walk up to nobody barbecue. You've got to be invited to the coaster. Hello. I want to see what it leads to. Hello. Oh, look, the barbecue's going on. Let's see if they're going to be camera happy. You've got three minutes left. I don't think they will be. I want to stop my video. My camera's very low. There's a barbecue here. Hello, my friend. Hello. What's she cooking? Oh, wow. Thank you. Thank you very much. No offense. Hello. This is for YouTube. YouTube, you know YouTube? What's the name? Blackman. Oh, that's friendly. They just get bread and chicken out of their plate. She's got 17 kids. Hello. High five. Oh, that's it. Roll in here. Welcome. Welcome. You're kicking it, aren't you? Hello. Have a good day. She's camera shy. Hello. So, bro, really eat that chicken. Eat jellies. Blackman to travel on. See you. Bye-bye, my friend. Take care. Have a good day. See you guys back in London. So, my Liverpool series has ended. With that, Jones, over here. It's been a pleasure to have you here, my bro. Thank you. Bye-bye. All right, let's hope I'm going to catch my train. If not, I'm pissed. Gotta go see my missus. But this is interesting. So, we're in a random area. Literally, we're just driving. And he's like, oh, let's come over here. Let's explore. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey. Don't you cap. I've seen you. You were worried about bro taking this camera. We all seen it. Yeah. That's what it's about. Going to different neighbourhoods, understanding the different neighbourhoods. And respecting people's cultures and beliefs. It's the most important thing. I'm a bit dangerous. I do, I go to random areas, but I love doing that anyway. Exploring and understanding the culture. That's fantastic. We've got food chicken. Take care, my friend, yeah? Thank you. All right, let's go. Let's catch my train. Black men the traveller. It's like Jones Liverpool. I'm not going to lie. Honestly, I wasn't going to watch the entire video. But I was fully entertained. It's Liverpool. I feel like that's my second home. I feel like I was next to this man. Walking through. Black man in the U.S. Oh, he went to the U.S.A.? All right, I'm gone. Thought I was.


Thanks for being involved and I'm delighted to see that our friends in Tokyo are having an earlier start than I am, so I have nothing to complain about. Look, I think it's been a great discussion so far and my congratulations to the team on a really, really important report. I really would emphasise that from Australia we are watching these issues very closely, the tensions in the Indo-Pacific, but especially the East China Sea and the South China Sea. In fact, the Australian Prime Minister is going to North Asia early next month and I'm sure these issues will be on the agenda when he goes to Beijing, to Tokyo or to Seoul. It's not only that these countries are our largest trading partners and of course Japan is our, as the Prime Minister would say, our closest friend in Asia, as others have said, our most successful relationship in Asia, but Japan is also the ally of our ally and any confrontation in that region will affect us. I think it's worth emphasising that from where Australia perceives this, this is not just about supporting partners, but as I think a few of the participants have emphasised this morning or today, it's about principles. Principles of non-coercion and freedom of navigation and I think that's where the Australian diplomatic contribution to all of this has been very pointed in the past six months. You may be aware that our relatively new government, which was elected last September, has come under quite strong pressure from China since then because of statements we have repeatedly made opposing coercion and opposing coercive changes to the status quo, particularly in the East China Sea. Now I don't think Australia is going to change its position on that. I think it was the right position. Perhaps we expressed it a bit less diplomatically than we ought, but I think we got the right place. What's important in this conversation is to know that the first Australian statement on that issue actually came out of the trilateral dialogue with the United States and Japan late last year and I want to emphasise the value of the trilateral mechanism that we have with Japan and the United States. I think to help understand and influence strategy in response to Chinese coercion. Now I fully endorse the two of the messages that I've heard today and I think the Australian policy community would fully endorse some. One is the absolute need for serious communication crisis management mechanisms and protocols in the East China Sea. It's extraordinary and frustrating that this is not happening and I fully appreciate that Japan has made repeated requests for this, especially in recent times. From our own research on this issue, which is ongoing, the basic principles still seem to apply and that is that it's precisely because there is a lack of strategic trust in the East China Sea for understandable reasons, I guess, that we need crisis management mechanisms. Yet every conversation I have with Chinese analysts on these issues, including recently during a multi-lateral event that we posted here in Sydney, we get the message there will be no crisis management mechanisms while there is strategic mistrust, while there is a dispute with Japan. Now, I think even our Chinese interlocutors are beginning to realise how hollow that sounds, how really unsustainable that position sounds. I like to think there is some degree of debate within China about whether its strategy of no CDMs is the right approach. They are obviously using risk as a tactic and I guess the worry for us all is that it may well take a crisis, a confrontation with some degree of escalation before that issue starts to shift in China and of course that is at one level what we don't want. A quick word about our Japanese friends before I close. I fully agree with former Minister Morimoto that it's important not to give China excuses to escalate and I think observers in Australia certainly appreciate the restraint and professionalism of Japanese forces on the water and in the air. We are also aware that there is a need to manage the political signaling that Japan sends and we all know that China has seized upon the Asakuni Shrine visit for its propaganda purposes and I guess we have to ask to what extent that is in the interest of our Japanese friends. But finally, when it comes to the principles of non-coercion, freedom of navigation and the other principles that we've heard emphasised today, I would stress that Australia strongly supports those principles, strongly supports the stance that is being taken on those principles and I guess what we would like to see as we've seen in the South China Sea or certainly what I personally would like to see, I think the Australian government may be a little bit shy about expressing this, that we would like to see the kind of approach we've seen in the South China Sea where the Philippines has in fact appealed to the umpire, the only state I think in China's maritime disputes that has appealed to a rules-based outcome, at least a law-based outcome internationally under the international tribunal on the law of the sea and it is a pity that the Philippines is not getting as much international diplomatic support as it ought to be on that. I'll leave my remarks there but congratulations on an important report that will certainly help to publicise it.