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Reacting to news in the Sunday Herald that nearly 30 community and environment groups have written to Energy Minister Fergus Ewing to ask him to include underground coal gasification projects…
Reacting to news today of £60m of new funding from the Green Investment Bank and the Strathclyde Pension Fund for community-scale renewable schemes across the UK, including the first scheme…
Commenting on approval of the plans air pollution campaigner Emilia Hanna said: “The new City Centre Transport Strategy has some welcome measures which may improve air quality, including plans for…
Reacting to the launch in parliament of the 2015-2016 budget today, Emilia Hanna, air pollution campaigner for Friends of the Earth Scotland said: “The Government’s failure to invest in clean…
This afternoon Energy Minister Fergus Ewing laid out the Scottish Government’s latest policy on unconventional gas and fracking, introducing a moratorium on the industry in Scotland while a full health…
Commenting on the news that Lord Gill the Lord President has announced a feasibility study into the creation of an Energy and Natural Resources Court in the Court of Session,…
This afternoon Energy Minister Fergus Ewing will lay out the Scottish Government’s latest policy on unconventional gas and fracking. This follows a new policy for a moratorium on the industry…
The UK Government today defeated moves by cross party MPs to introduce a moratorium on unconventional gas and fracking in a tense series of votes on the Infrastructure Bill. The…
Reacting to today’s damning report on fracking from Westminster’s influential Environmental Audit Committee, Mary Church, Head of Campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “The MPs on the Environmental…
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