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The Scottish Government announced today that it reached its 500MW target of community and locally-owned energy five years early with a total generating capacity of 508MW renewable energy now installed….
Independent activist and ex-diplomat John Ashton CBE will share his recent experiences from the front line of the intensifying struggle over fracking in England at a Parliamentary reception tonight. The…
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has today confirmed a presumption against fracking and unconventional gas developments in Northern Ireland. The new Single Planning Policy Statement states: “in relation to unconventional…
Commenting on the demolition of the chimneys and turbine hall at Cockenzie power station taking place at noon on Saturday 27th Sep 2015, Dr Richard Dixon, Director of Friends of…
Reacting to news that energy company Cluff Natural Resources has dismissed community fears as ‘unfounded’ and ‘irrelevant’ towards experimental technology Underground Coal Gasification being developed around the Forth, Ms Flick…
As revealed in today’s Sunday Herald the number of people being killed of by air pollution every year in Scotland may be nearly twice what was previously thought. The…
New data published in the Sunday Herald today reveals that Scottish local authority pensions have an astonishing £1.7 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, such as Shell and BP. Before…
Reacting to news that a new anti-fracking campaign has been launched within the SNP in the run up to the party’s autumn conference, Ms Flick Monk, Unconventional Gas Campaigner at…
The Scottish Parliament will today (15/9/15) debate community renewable energy in Scotland to coincide with UK's Community Energy Fortnight. Ahead of the debate Friends of the Earth Scotland Community Power…
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