Tag: Biomass
Anti Biomass protest at Holyrood
Environmentalists and residents from Dundee, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Edinburgh today gathered outside The Scottish Parliament to call on the Scottish Government to stop subsidising big biomass as 'green' energy.
Shortly before the demo, Fergus Ewing, Energy...
Biomass may still make economic sense
The Scottish Government recently published draft proposals for biomass subsidies that could potentially see Forth Energy get a financial windfall of over £170 million per year.
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth Scotland and Biofuelwatch...
Leith Biomass Plant turn attention to government subsidies
Protesters against the planned Leith Biomass Plant have turned their attention to government subsidies in the hope that they will be the key to preventing Forth Energy’s plans to build a power plant in...
Edinburgh Reporter chats : Malcolm Chisholm MSP
Malcolm Chisholm, MSP for Edinburgh North and Leith, comes to meet The Reporter at reception in Holyrood. Doesn't he have people to do that? Well, no, since it is a Friday, but he confesses...
SNP demand answers from Lib-Dems on Biomass – and we have them!
Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP (Lothians)(SNP) is calling on local Lib Dem politicians to make clear their position on Forth Energy’s proposals for a biomass plant in Leith. Her call comes after the local Lib Dem...
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