CLIMATE UPDATE – May 2013
TOP LINES: May was close to average for temperature and sunshine but 50% wetter than an average May. May statistics: Average Temperature: 8.4°C which is 0.2°C below the long-term average…
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Press Releases
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Grangemouth biomass decision – Biofuelwatch/FoE Scotland comment
Grangemouth residents and campaign groups outraged by decision to approve Forth Energy biomass Plant Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced today that consent has been granted to Forth Energy for a…
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Wave power scheme great news for clean energy
Welcoming the announcement of the world’s largest wave power scheme, Dr Richard Dixon, Director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “This is great news. Wave power has a huge…
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Coalbed methane and fracking ‘unregulatable’ says toxins expert
Internationally acclaimed toxins experts Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith will tomorrow (21 May) tell the Scottish Parliament that the environmental and health impacts of unconventional gas extraction are impossible to regulate safely….
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Protestors Outside Cairn Energy’s AGM today
Friends of the Earth Scotland Press Release ENVIRONMENTALISTS PROTEST AT CAIRN ENERGY’S AGM TODAY IN EDINBURGH FREE HIGH RES PICTURES: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheearthscotland/sets/721576335094… Activists from Friends of the Earth Scotland gathered today…
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Campaigners blow up a mountain outside RBS AGM
Friends of the Earth Scotland For immediate release FREE PICTURES: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheearthscotland/8737490275/ RBS Mountaintop Removal Protest at RBS Bank headquarters AGM, Edinburgh, 14/05/2013: Friends of the Earth Scotland demonstrators protest outside…
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Climate Update – April 2013
TOP LINE: April was cooler and wetter than average but also very sunny, being the 10th sunniest April on record April statistics: Average Temperature: 4.8°C which is 0.9°C below the long-term…
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Fracking priority downgraded in new planning policy
Friends of the Earth Scotland today (30 April 2013) welcomed a major change in policy from the Scottish Government that will make it much more difficult for companies to exploit…
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MPs report on shale gas – FoE Scotland Reaction
MPs report on shale gas – FoE Scotland Reaction Reacting to a new report published today by the Energy and Climate Change Committee on the impact of shale gas on…
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