Community Energy – Empowering local authorities and their communities to guide local sustainable energy roll-out
Programe details for the workshop held in Edinburgh on 25 September 2014.
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Research & Briefings
Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
Community Power Scotland: From Remote Island Grids to Urban Solar Co-operatives
Our Community Power campaign aims to mobilise people to develop their own renewable solutions to their energy needs. It provides investment and public support for renewables projects and encourages people to…
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Invitation to attend ICLEI workshop on community energy, Edinburgh, 25th Sep
Click below to download the invitation attached. Local decision-makers, planners, local government associations / networks and energy agencies are invited to participate in this free workshop addressing potential for roll-out…
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Response to DECC underground access consultation
DECC proposed to make it easier for shale gas companies to drill under people's homes by taking away their right to object or even be notified. We object and fortunately…
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Smaller Greener Banking: Banking for sustainability in a New Scotland
Our new report ‘Smaller, Greener Banking’ considers the dominance of RBS and Bank of Scotland in Scotland, the damaging yet potentially positive role of finance for environmental sustainability, and fresh…
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Community power: Model legal frameworks for citizen-owned renewable energy
This report from Client Earth, argues that community power is an essential element in Europe’s low carbon energy transition. The report includes case studies from Spain, Germany, Denmark, Scotland and…
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Representations on Glasgow’s Local Development Plan
Friends of the Earth Scotland's representations on Glasgow's Local Development Plan insofar as they relate to air pollution.
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Friends of the Earth consultation response to Scottish Government Draft Heat Generation Policy Statement
Friends of the Earth consultation response to Scottish Government Draft Heat Generation Policy Statement
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Unconventional Gas: unsafe, unnecessary, unwanted
Brief document explaining why unconventional gas extraction, including shale gas and coalbed methane, is unsafe, unnecessary, and unwanted in Scotland. Click here to read
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