What On Earth 63

Friends of the Earth Scotland’s supporters’ magazine Issue 63 Summer 2014

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Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) is: • Scotland’s leading environmental campaigning organisation • An independent Scottish charity with a network of thousands of supporters and active local groups across Scotland

• Part of the largest grassroots environmental network in the world, uniting over 2 million supporters, 77 national member groups, and some 5,000 local activist groups.

Our vision is of a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth’s resources.

Friends of the Earth Scotland is an independent Scottish charity SC003442.

What on Earth is published by and copyrighted to: Friends of the Earth Scotland 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PR T: 0131 243 2700 E: info@foe-scotland.org.uk W: www.foe-scotland.org.uk Twitter: @FoEScot facebook.com/foescotland

Editor: Connal Hughes Picture Editor: Connal Hughes Design: www.triggerpress.co.uk Cover: FoES and World Development Movement 'Carbon Bubbly' protest at RBS AGM about the bank's continued financing of coal projects.

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Contents 4 Sustainable Finance Making money work for people and the planet 6 Unconventional Gas Update Ups and downs in the fight against new fossil fuels 10 Glasgow’s Air Pollution Did the Commonwealth Games bring cleaner air?

12 FoES Local Groups Updates from our local groups across Scotland 14 Network News FoE groups from across the international network

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elcome to What on Earth Issue 63. In this edition we explore our new sustainable finance campaign, hear about our work to tackle air pollution in Scotland and share stories from right across the Friends of the Earth network.

We will also update you on key developments in the fight against unconventional gas and let you know about some really exciting events happening this autumn.

knowledge, skills and dedication of the campaigners both here and at the local level.

I am really looking forward to meeting more of you and helping you continue your fantastic work.

If you have any feedback or thoughts about my first edition please get in touch.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together.

Connal Hughes, Editor whatonearth@foe-scotland.org.uk

NEIL LOVELOCK, FOE GLASGOW

I have just joined the team in Thorn House and have been hugely impressed by the

Editorial & News in Brief

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lasgow launched its public bike rental scheme this summer in an effort to boost active transport.

Air Pollution campaigner Emilia Hanna welcomed the news saying “together with the newly proposed cycle routes across the city, this scheme will improve people’s health,

reduce carbon emissions, and help tackle Glasgow’s air pollution problem. Glasgow City Council needs to go further however and tackle congestion through a traffic reduction target for the city centre and create Low Emissions Zones to keep out the most polluting vehicles.”

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Head of Campaigns Mary Church said “the Scottish Government needs to send a stronger signal to the industry and ban unconventional gas extraction altogether,

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cotland missed its climate emissions reduction target for the third successive year. Our Climate Change Act is regarded as one of the most ambitious in the world but the government has had difficulties meeting its

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he long awaited Courts Reform Bill is currently going through Parliament and to our great delight the Justice Committee agrees that the proposed reforms will do little to comply with our international obligations under the Aarhus Convention. They have also expressed sympathy with our call for an environmental tribunal. This coincides nicely with the publication of a report that we have commissioned from the Environmental Law

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here was good news for communities across the central belt as British Geological Survey estimates showed only a modest amount of shale gas resources. When combined with recent tighter planning restrictions on this type of development, partly in response to our pressure, this means that Scotland is increasingly unwelcome to unconventional gas companies. However, the bad news is that the UK Government have launched a licensing round offering up a huge area across the Central Belt of Scotland. focusing instead on making the most of our abundant renewable resources and supporting communities to generate their own sources of clean energy.”

yearly goals. Ministers responded to the disappointing figures by announcing an extra £20m in funding including support for greener transport schemes and rural energy efficiency measures.

Centre Scotland on the subject, currently out for an informal stakeholder consultation.

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Director’s View

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by Dr Richard Dixon @Richard_Dixon

ver the summer I have been strengthening our links with the Friends of the Earth network, first at the FoE Europe AGM in Spain and then at FoE England, Wales and Northern Ireland’s local groups’ event, Basecamp, in Derbyshire.

It was great to hear what FoE groups are doing around Europe and about the work focused on the European Union which is run from the Brussels office. We had reports from the central campaigns on Climate Justice and Energy; Food, Agriculture and Biodiversity; Economic Justice; and Resource Use; as well as hearing about network development activity intended to increase the impact of Young FoE Europe and to build capacity in the FoE France.

Among other things, we discussed joint plans for the Paris climate meeting in 2015, our common messages across Europe, how we should or should not engage with business, how to deal with the new crop of MEPs and the TTIP trade agreement. The latter has

become a major priority for the FoE Europe office because it potentially threatens so many areas of our work. It would open the door for genetically modified crops and allow US companies to get around European environmental and labour laws.

We had a great session sharing experiences of running a FoE organisation and it was a surprise to find out that we are medium-sized as FoE groups go in Europe.

We are currently planning for Global Frackdown Day on 11th October and our own local groups’ weekend on 22nd/23rd November. This weekend will include working with other organisations on plans around the Paris climate meeting and beyond, and sharing valuable skills with other campaigning groups.

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by Ric Lander

cotland’s financial sector has an impact far beyond our borders. Loans from banks enable corporations to cash in on land grabs, food speculation and destructive, polluting fossil fuel projects.

RBS to coal, oil and gas around the world including enormously damaging schemes such as the Alberta tar sands.

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When we began, RBS denied that climate change was an issue and refused to take any responsibility for the carbon footprint of its Working with FoE groups and other allies loan book. Now they publish the emissions of across Europe the Sustainable Finance their investments and this year divested from campaign is getting to the root of this mountain top removal, one of the most problem, to challenge and reform our broken destructive forms of coal financial sector and We want to see smaller, mining. RBS remains the support banking in the democratically-controlled UK's largest fossil fuel service of people and the and publicly-owned banks bank, but our collective planet. functioning in a diverse efforts are starting to effect banking sector. change.

Friends of the Earth Scotland has long been at To broaden our campaigning on finance we the forefront of this change. Since the UK also hosted the 'Just Banking' conference, Government's historic £20 billion bailout of exploring ways in which we could reform RBS we have been pushing for a withdrawal banking for the public good. Many of the from dirty energy and a transformation to a discussions at this event are continuing “Royal Bank of Sustainability”. With our across the UK and we have seen a multitude partners we uncovered billions flowing from

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FoES & WDM 'Carbon Bubbly' demonstration at RBS AGM about their ongoing investment in coal projects

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of ideas spring forward on making finance work for a better world.

Using research cases where Scottish finance is linked to human rights violations and environmental damage in the Global South our new Sustainable Finance campaign will consider how we can use our power to clean up Scottish finance. We have many opportunities to make this change: pressuring our pension funds, banks, and institutional investors like our universities, churches and unions.

Our first step is to share a vision of how we think banks should be reformed in a new Scotland. We want to see smaller, democratically-controlled and publicly-owned banks functioning in a diverse banking sector.

With independence, we could negotiate our stake in RBS to create these new banks – but as part of the UK the UK Government has the power to do this too. We also want to see controls on the carbon emissions of investments so that our banks phase out funding dirty energy altogether.

We think banking reform is a vital topic to explore and our proposals will be published online this summer. Our society and our planet desperately need sustainable finance so we hope you'll continue to support this work.

We will be sharing our ideas for the campaign our Local Groups Day event on November 22nd so we'll see you there.

How to encourage more sustainable finance will be a key question explored at our

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conference on alternative economics in September. We will also be examining how we can increase democratic controls over our economy, reverse the trend of deepening income inequality and begin to plot an alternative economic pathway that ensures wellbeing for all and cares for the environment.

Reinventing our economy for people and the planet: An Enquiry about Sustainable Alternative Economic Policies Public debate: Wed 10th Sep 19.30–21.00 Conference: Thurs 11th Sep 9.00–17.00 Glasgow University Speakers will include Ann Pettifor, Richard Murphy, and Professors Richard Werner (Southampton), Malcolm Sawyer (Leeds) and Andrew Cumbers (Glasgow).

Organised in partnership with Jubilee Scotland, Oxfam, UNISON Scotland, Christian Aid, STUC and World Development Movement.

For more information and to book tickets visit: ReinventOurEconomy.uk

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By Mary Church @mmachch

ur campaign to secure buffer zone protection for communities facing shale gas or coalbed methane drilling and fracking finally paid off with the publication of the new and improved Scottish Planning Policy in June.

While the policy is far from perfect – we’ve been calling for Ministers to use devolved planning powers to implement a ban – it does establish important protections. Developers are now required to undertake a risk assessment and propose a buffer zone based on their findings. If implemented properly in the densely populated central belt these buffers would necessarily be extensive. Local Authorities are obliged to reject applications without adequate buffer zones.

monitoring regime should be put in place to ensure site clean up post-operation or should a company go bust. The Planning Minister has promised additional guidance to support the new policy and we The policy also Crucial gaps in the new will continue to work removes a framework remain. The policy with officials to ensure presumption in favour does not appear to cover shale of unconventional gas oil extraction and underground these apparent oversights are dealt extraction, uses much coal gasification with. more cautious language and closes a loophole that could But where does all this leave the communities allow coalbed methane operators to start with developments and planning permissions fracking without explicit planning permission. already on their doorsteps?

However, crucial gaps in the new framework The good news is that because the new remain. The policy does not appear to cover planning policy applies to any application as shale oil extraction and underground coal yet undetermined, it applies to Dart Energy’s gasification, and there is no specific guidance proposal for commercial coalbed methane as to what kind of financial bonds and

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extraction at Airth. The Reporters deciding this case have taken further evidence from parties on what the new policy means for this development. We are clear that from the evidence presented in earlier Inquiry sessions that Dart have not conducted an adequate risk assessment or proposed adequate buffer zones. It is our view that this new policy requires the Reporters to turn the development down.

A huge swathe of central and southern Scotland is being offered for unconventional gas exploitation For the community at Canonbie with 20 planning permissions for coalbed methane extraction around their village, the picture is less clear, as the new policy cannot apply retrospectively. However, a group of residents had a complaint accepted by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman about the way in which these planning permissions were dealt with. Few locals were notified, and each of the applications, which are all part of the same project, were approved separately with no examination of the cumulative impacts.

We eagerly await the outcome of these cases in the coming months. In the meantime, the proof will be in the pudding as to the robustness of the new planning protections for communities when companies apply for licenses in the 14th onshore round. A huge swathe of central and southern Scotland is being offered for unconventional gas exploitation: if the fracking companies choose not to go for licenses in Scotland then we will know that half the battle is won…

Save the date: Global Frackdown Day Saturday 11 October 2014

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fter the huge success of last year’s stunt outside the SNP conference in Perth which saw Ministers commit to delivering buffer zones, we will continue to pile on the pressure with a bigger and better event for 2014. Plans are at an early stage, but we want to send out a loud message that Scotland doesn’t want or need this dirty industry. Global Frackdown Day will also be a great chance to lend support to the Scottish community resistance groups who are facing this David and Goliath battle.

Put the date in your diary now!

For more information contact Paul: pdaly@foe-scotland.org.uk or 0131 243 2708

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By Anne Schiffer, Community Power Campaigner @AnneSchiffer1

ater this year we will release a Community Power film and case study report which will tell the stories of Kingussie hydro scheme, Dingwall Wind Co-Operative and other exciting energy projects from around the country.

which is currently administered by the Local Energy Scotland consortium (Check out localenergyscotland.org). There is also a strong political commitment with a 500MW target of “community and locally owned� energy by 2020.

Please keep an eye on our website for updates or support this great initiative through our current appeal: foes.do/HelpCoPower

Yet despite this support, Scotland lags behind Denmark and Germany where these projects have become much more normalized. A significant obstacle to uptake is a lack of awareness of the huge potential that exists.

Scottish Community Energy Coalition (SCEC) Friends of the Earth Scotland hosted the second coalition meeting in early June when experts from Client Earth presented their research into the best legal frameworks to help community energy flourish. These will enable us to develop joint recommendations to remove barriers to success. See the full report: foes.do/ClientEarthCoPower Community outreach The Scottish Government provides financial support and advice through the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES), 8

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Edinburgh based social enterprise SCENE (scenetwork.co.uk) discovered that less than 20% of community council members have any awareness of opportunities for community groups to get involved in energy projects. We are therefore working with them and other coalition partners to develop a community outreach programme over the coming months.

Search on Twitter for #CommunityPower or visit www.communitypower.eu

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Access to Justice

By Mary Church @mmachch

e’re just back from the 5th Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Aarhus Convention, where delegates gathered from as far afield as Iceland and Kazakhstan to discuss issues ranging from national compliance to the creation of similar regional agreements.

environmental cases, despite the introduction of measures designed to reduce communities and NGOs exposure to expenses. This backs up our view of the flaws in the new system of Protective Expense Orders, in the context of real difficulties in accessing legal aid and a doubling of court fees in just two years.

The Meeting upheld the recent decision of the Aarhus Compliance Committee against the UK for failing to meet their commitments under all three pillars of the Convention: access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Our campaign has focused on the last pillar because this is where Scotland, and the rest of the UK, are so starkly in breach of the rights enshrined by Aarhus. Without equitable, affordable access to justice to pursue breaches of environmental law, the rights under the former pillars are unenforceable.

The good news is that as a result of our work feeding into the various Aarhus processes, the new decision recognises differences in the legal jurisdictions within the UK and makes it harder for the Scottish Government to hide the flaws specific to our own legal system.

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What is important about this new decision is that it finds against the UK on the issue of the extremely high cost of taking legal action in

While in Maastricht we also heard the very welcome news that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change had agreed to reverse an earlier decision to charge NGOs for side events at the annual climate talks due to pressure from FoE International colleagues and others using an Aarhus article which commits Parties to promoting its principles – in this case public participation – in international forums.

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Air Pollution

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By Emilia Hanna @emiliajaneagain

y the time you’ve picked up your copy of What on Earth, Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games will have been and gone. Races will have been run, winners will have been celebrated, and the losers forgotten. But when the media spotlight has moved on, the tourists have gone and the streets have been swept, what will the legacy be for Glasgow? Will it include clean air?

The answer to this question is literally a matter of life and death. UK Government figures now put the death toll from exposure to fine particles in Glasgow at over 300 people each year.

Air pollution is the top environmental health threat in Scotland costing us 22,500 life years annually.

For those children growing up in Glasgow who now dream of competing in future Commonwealth Games, the answer to this question has a very real bearing on their chances of making it.

Exposure to traffic related air pollution is already known to be associated with worsened allergic symptoms in young people. There is now increasingly robust evidence emerging from King’s College London that exposures can lead to reduced lung growth and poor cognitive outcomes, showing that such

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pollution can have potentially limiting impacts on our children's development.

The Commonwealth Games should have been a testing ground to trial measures to improve local air quality. In fact, one of the key “green” promises of the Games was that Low Emission Zones would be piloted around all the venues. These zones would cover a number of streets around venues where the most polluting vehicles would have had to

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stay out or face fines. Low Emission Zones have been successfully implemented in London, Berlin and Copenhagen and are starting to show promising results for air quality.

The Games Organising Committee decision to renege on this commitment which was extremely disappointing and a real missed opportunity.

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Street which are usually congested and polluted.

As part of our campaign for clean air in Glasgow, we will continue to call on Glasgow City Council to prioritise the introduction of a Low Emission Zone in its future plans for the city centre. We are also calling for a national framework for Low Emission Zones to be introduced which maps out how such zones could be introduced across all Scottish cities.

On the other hand, spectators and athletes UK Government figures now Low Emission Zones are put the death toll from just one essential enjoyed three days of reduced traffic in Glasgow exposure to fine particles in ingredient in the overall during the Games. On the Glasgow at over 300 people mix of measures needed each year to clean up our air. We days of the marathon, also need to see a bike time trial and bike greater investment into walking and cycle road race, key streets were closed to traffic. infrastructure, improved public transport and There was a fantastic festival atmosphere in to cut spending on unnecessary new road the city, with people walking and cycling freely developments. around streets like Broomielaw and High So, perhaps in and of themselves the Commonwealth Games will not have cleaned up Glasgow’s air. But Friends of the Earth Scotland and FoE Glasgow will continue to put pressure on Council and Government to commit to clean air long after the memory of the Games has faded.

If you want to be involved in the air pollution campaign please do get in touch. ehanna@foe-scotland.org.uk

FoE Glasgow, Paul & Emilia enjoyed a day out at the Marathon and asked people to sign petitions for cleaner air in Glasgow.

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL DARROCH/OAKTREE PRODUCTIONS.

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Local Groups

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FoE Dumfries organised a film screening about Cambodia: A River Changes Course at their local film theatre, with a lively discussion afterwards.

FoE Tayside, not resting on the laurels of their fantastic victory against plans for Dundee Biomass, have been responding to their Local Development plan and held an event as part of the Green Groups initiative with Dundee Museums, focusing on Nature and Environmental Protection. They are also working to ensure that communities are involved and biodiversity is promoted in the development of Dundee Waterfront.

Russel Ecob, FoE Glasgow

FoE Glasgow have also been responding to the City Centre Transport Strategy. The group attended screenings of Musicwood and A River Changes Course at Glasgow Film Theatre and distributed FoES leaflets to the audience. FoE Glasgow have a street collection and a fundraising music gig coming up on 13th September, and have been working with FoE Scotland on our air pollution campaign.

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Over the summer FoE Falkirk will be holding events at their community gardens to promote local food and challenge litter in the town centre. Group members continue share the message about the risks of coalbed methane with local communities. Recent meetings have discussed ‘Good Energy’ and they hope to include a session on community energy projects in one of their Autumn meeting slots.

FoE Stirling are planning some social evenings and looking to recruit more active members.

FoE Inverness & Ross have been talking to Eco-congregations about their church energy saving and solar panels project. They have also made some progress trying to cut down on wasteful and polluting idling of diesel trains at Inverness station.

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ur 2014 Local Groups Day will be on Saturday 22 November in Edinburgh. We will hear about what local groups are doing, share news of FoES campaigns, and begin planning local actions ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris in 2015.

For more information, email jfitzgerald@foe-scotland.org.uk Tel: 0131 243 2717

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f you’re part of a local group, why not get some of our new membership leaflets?

They’re bright, colourful and offer an ideal introduction to FoE Scotland and our campaigns.

Contact jfitzgerald@foe-scotland.org.uk Tel: 0131 243 2717

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any of the Friends of the Earth Scotland team were in Derbyshire in June for Basecamp. This is the national activist event for local group members of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland (FoE EWNI).

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by John Fitzgerald @JohnFitzG

ShareAction, gave a keynote speech on why and how environmental activists should challenge the financial sector. Manchester FoE won the ‘group of the year’ award (pictured), and everyone enjoyed a ceilidh with the Green Kite Band.

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A packed programme of parallel workshops Over 400 activists from Friends of the Earth covered a huge range of topics. FoE Scotland and other groups came together to learn from staff contributed to sessions on fracking and each other, build connections and gather the implications of devolution and the inspiration for the year ahead. The weekend forthcoming referendum on Scottish had a festival atmosphere, with creative independence. Other topics included FoE workshops and music alongside formal talks EWNI’s new campaign ‘Run and meetings. Activities It was really inspiring to on Sun’ which aims to bring included cooking a shared feel connected with the solar energy to as many meal from vegetables wider FoE network schools as possible, and rescued from waste, and details of the EU’s secretive new TTIP trade building a giant ‘Mr. Frackhead’ puppet to deal, which seriously threatens our ability to appear at events across the country. protect our environment.

“It was really inspiring to feel connected with Emilia Hanna welcomed the chance to the wider FoE network” said FoES connect with other activists working on air campaigner Paul Daly. “Unconventional gas pollution: “there are a lot of people working on and fracking pose risks across the UK, so this issue, both local activists and FoE EWNI being able to strengthen connections between staff. It was great to be able to share our affected communities is very helpful.”

Scottish experiences and learn about what is happening in other cities.”

Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of

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FoE Nigeria attending UN Human Rights Council

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It could also introduce the right for corporations to sue governments if they introduced a policy that would negatively impact upon their profits. This anti-democratic mechanism could pave the way for fracking, the unrestricted imports of tar sands and seriously undermine European climate legislation. Learn more at: foes.do/TradeDeal

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UN legislation to tackle business abuses he UN Human Rights Council has voted to start creating an international, legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of multinational corporations regarding their human rights abuses.

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No deal for European citizens riends of the Earth Europe in Brussels have been focusing their expertise on challenging the proposed EU-US trade deal. It is known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and has been negotiated largely in secret since discussions began last year.

The deal could see a mutual lowering of standards in both trading blocs, aiming to remove certain regulations that big business deems ‘barriers to trade’. These rules include many hard won environmental safeguards, workers’ protections, food safety standards and financial regulations.

Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) and other civil society organisations have campaigned for decades for binding standards to hold corporations accountable where and when they commit environmental crimes and human rights violations. EU nations and the USA fiercely opposed the move threatening financial sanctions against countries who supported the proposal.

Such a mechanism could potentially prosecute companies like Shell for their pollution in the Niger Delta, the garment factories manufacturing ‘cheap’ clothes for the west or other firms engaging in land grabs in Africa.

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his is the follow up to the critically acclaimed documentary ‘You've Been Trumped,’ which told the story of the Forbes and the Milnes who have fought tooth and nail against billionnaire tycoon Donald Trump's invasion of the stunning Aberdeenshire coastline to develop an exclusive golf course.

Director Anthony Baxter weaves the Scottish struggle with those of other communities around the world fighting new golf developments. He travels to Croatia where a course is being developed just above the town of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage protected site. The overwhelming majority of residents oppose the project due to concerns over the wasteful use of their most precious natural resource – water.

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Dubrovnik supports the scheme, tellingly describing the earmarked land as “just for the animals and the peasants".

The Aberdeen story seems so ridiculous that it is almost beyond belief that it could happen more than once. Yet across the planet, developers see profit in pouring pesticides, fertilisers, and millions of gallons of water onto land to develop luxury golf courses; often in beautiful locations which should be

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sensitively managed and which local communities should have the right to enjoy.

The climactic meeting of filmmaker Baxter and Trump is not quite the triumphant "screw you Trump!" moment that I was hoping for, where Trump makes a fool out of himself by saying something wholly disrespectful, inappropriate, and villainish. But this is probably a testament to Baxter's success: Trump has prepared for the interview and he clearly sees Baxter as a threat.

The film is a stirring reminder of the importance of the fight for environmental and social justice. It epitomises everything our Access to Environmental Justice campaign stands for. Friends of the Earth Scotland is working tirelessly to ensure that people have the right to hold public authorities and corporations to account for breaking environmental law.

This film is not to be missed. It is thought provoking, empowering, and shows that communities across the world are united in a common fight to defend the environment from being trampled on by an irresponsible elite.

The film will be released across Scotland on 5th September. adangerousgame.org

In July we asked our members to pledge their support for our work to bring ‘power to the people’. We’re pleased to say that this appeal has raised almost £8,000 at the time of going to print.

There is still time to donate to this appeal: just go to www.foe-scotland.org.uk/appeal Thanks for all your support!

“We take so much from the planet during our lives, and it gives us so much pleasure, it seemed like the right thing to do to give something back for future generations.”

We need to keep campaigning on these issues today. And we need to be Scotland’s voice for the planet tomorrow and in the years to come.

With your support, we can continue making life better for people by inspiring effective solutions to environmental problems.

You don’t have to be wealthy to leave a gift in your will. A gift of any amount can help protect the environment for years to come.

You can call John on 0131 243 3717 for more information about leaving a gift in your will to Friends of the Earth Scotland or email jfitzgerald@foe-scotland.org.uk

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