MORE than 69,000 new green jobs could be created as Scotland turns into a “clean energy superpower” under a Labour government, the party has claimed.

Labour controversially dropped plans for a £28 billion Green New Deal earlier this year, promising a Green Prosperity Plan instead which would invest £8.2bn, raised from windfall tax receipts on oil and gas profiteers, to form a new state-owned power company based in Scotland.

The party said boosting investment in green technologies such as  wind, hydrogen and controversial carbon capture could generate as many as 53,000 jobs in Scotland, with 16,000 more being created by a drive to insulate thousands of homes which still fall below energy efficiency standards.