‘Infuriating’ demands for Shetland drilling will worsen extreme weather
Oil industry cheerleaders are even demanding that oil companies don’t pay their fair share of taxes on any future drilling.
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Press Releases
Find the latest Friends of the Earth Scotland press releases
“It’s Scotland’s Energy” Briefing for Scottish Parliament debate
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Energy Price Cap Rise: public are paying for political failure to transition away from fossil fuels
The 13% rise in bills is due to oil companies profiteering from the war in Iran.
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Reform UK’s plan to scrap climate industries could destroy 500,000 jobs
Reversal of decades of climate policy could wipe out jobs across Scotland and erase plans to create more in coming years.
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Reform manifesto oil plans ‘only benefit party donors’
The Rosebank oil field would be a climate catastrophe, and by threatening to approve it, Reform are doing the bidding of its wealthy fossil fuel donors.
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‘Grotesque’ BP profits show politicians must end calls to scrap windfall tax
While ordinary people are worried sick about rising energy bills, it’s grotesque that BP are making billions from the violence in Iran.
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Electricity price reform shows need to move on from fossil fuels
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Legal threat over Peterhead plant fossil fuel ‘lock in’
The proposed gas power station would mean huge climate pollution and sky rocketing energy bills for a generation.
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Response to Scottish Government consultation on Draft Climate Change Plan
The Plan is lacking in both detail and policy and does not represent a robust route to meeting climate goals. The next Scottish Government must go further than the policies outlined in this CCP if it wishes to tackle the climate emergency in a just and equitable way.
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