Ministerial Code Breaches: supporting evidence

Friends of the Earth Scotland have made a formal complaint to the Scottish Government about 28 breaches of the Scottish Government Ministerial Code.

These breaches relate to various ministerial meetings with developers SSE and Equinor, public statements in support of the planning application and refusal to meet with objectors.

SSE and Equinor submitted a planning application to build an additional gas burning power station at Peterhead. The Peterhead application was received by the Scottish Ministers on 18^th February 2022 and is under consideration by the Energy Consents Unit

The documents detail the complaint, along with supporting evidence such as Freedom of Information (FOI) responses, letters from Ministers and a list of meetings in question. 

You can read the correspondance about the complaint between Friends of the Earth Scotland and the Scottish Government