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Environmental watchdog requested to investigate the Scottish Government’s incineration failure

Environmental groups have formally requested Scotland’s environmental watchdog to investigate the Scottish Government’s repeated refusal to use its powers to curb incineration. The Scottish Government created a moratorium on new…

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Scottish Government misses yet another climate target

Environmental campaigners have reacted to the news that the Scottish Government has missed another climate target, bringing the total to nine of the last 13 year’s annual targets that have…

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Scottish Government abandons recycling target

Environmental campaigners have slammed the Scottish Government for abandoning its target to increase household recycling rate to 60%. The ‘unbelievable’ move has been made as part of  its creation of a new law to tackle waste by moving Scotland to a circular economy.

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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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Protest tells energy giant Equinor ‘Scotland will be fossil free’

Demonstration against company’s plans to build a new gas burning power station at Peterhead and to drill the Rosebank oil field.

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Oil giant Equinor posts profits ‘obscene’ as families struggle with energy bills

Equinor is the UK’s largest supplier of fossil gas and is set on continuing to develop fossil fuel infrastructure

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Bute House Agreement ends

Climate campaigners have said that the end of the BHA ‘does not change the fact’ that the Scottish Government needs to get its climate plans back on track.    A Friends of…

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Bute House protest urges First Minister ‘not to break climate promises’

Scrapping climate targets means a weakening of action, less scrutiny on Ministers and is a ‘betrayal’ of those impacted by climate breakdown.

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