Climate Minister slammed for attending “greenwash fest” conference
Protestors targeted the Edinburgh event which was full of big polluters pushing carbon capture.
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£22billion carbon capture handout could push energy bills higher
Ahead of the expected energy price cap rise, fuel poverty campaigners are highlighting how Labour’s £22billion handout to controversial carbon capture technology is likely to push bills even higher in…
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Labour accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over fossil fuel donation
The firm behind controversial Peterhead gas plant gives £25k to party despite UK Ministers saying we ‘must protect billpayers from fossil fuel price rollercoaster’
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Peterhead power station: 5 times more climate pollution than developers admitted
The Scottish Government must now order the companies to produce an honest assessment of the climate emissions from the project.
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Europe’s Carbon Capture plans have ‘prohibitive’ cost and are ‘nowhere near ready,’ say experts
Europe’s current CCS projects will cost €520 billion and swallow up €140 billion of publi subsidy.
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Cost of carbon capture failures revealed
The UK committed or already spent nearly £500 million on carbon capture projects since 2010, and yet there are no commercial-scale carbon capture projects.
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Carbon capture visit and funding ‘makes a mockery’ of planning process
Vital public services are crying out for funding yet John Swinney is giving millions of pounds to a pet project of Shell, who made £50 billion profit in the last two years.
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44 organisations urge Scottish Government to reject ‘disastrous’ fossil fuel expansion at Peterhead
Organisations from across Scottish society demand Ministers to reject this disastrous development which will only benefit greedy energy companies at a huge cost to Scottish households and the climate
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SSE want to ‘pull wool over’ public’s eyes on Peterhead gas expansion plan
Climate activists protest SSE huge profits and company plans to build new gas burning power station at Peterhead.
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