What on Earth 65

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Friends of the Earth Scotland’s supporters’ magazine Issue 65 Spring 2015

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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, 74 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.

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Fracking on Hold in Scotland Let’s turn the moratorium into a ban!

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To Paris and Beyond 2015: A year of climate action

10 Fossil Free Pensions Divestment makes a splash in Scotland 13 Scotland’s Air Pollution Plan Have your say on the Low Emission Strategy 16 Local Groups Midlothian and Edinburgh

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Director’s View

by Dr Richard Dixon @Richard_Dixon

e’re all rather pleased with ourselves because of the big campaign success which is the Scottish Government’s moratorium on unconventional gas, including putting a stop to the live proposals at Airth and Canonbie.

This has been quite a journey, with four years’ work with communities, politicians, local councils, our Dumfries, Falkirk and Stirling local groups, and technical experts, including last year’s Public Inquiry, the Independence Referendum battle over fracking rights, 17,000 emails to MSPs and the recent dramatic developments.

January was a rollercoaster with the SNP going to vote for a moratorium at Westminster, then not going to, then doing the right thing; Labour announcing a great new policy in Scotland and then immediately failing to back the same things at Westminster; a fevered 36 hours in which 1,400 of you emailed Nicola Sturgeon, finishing with Fergus Ewing’s moratorium announcement to the Scottish Parliament.

Great work by individuals and community groups have been a big part of this success

but it’s rare that any campaigning organisation can so clearly see their own finger prints on the key turning points in a success. We know that Scotland would be nowhere near today’s result without our work.

We also want to thank you for your support with this campaign and throughout the past few years. Your generosity and commitment enables us to keep on fighting.

Everyone in the office has contributed to this success, from mad photocopying to placard waving, drilling rig construction to e-action writing. Unconventional gas has been the campaign we have put most resources into this year and last, and we have achieved arguably the biggest result in FoES’ 37-year history.

Great as it is, this is only one big step on the way to the final result. We need to go up against the multi-million pound industry’s oncoming pro-fracking PR onslaught and turn the moratorium into a ban, as well as defeating Underground Coal Gasification, which escaped the moratorium on a technicality.

So we’re happy, but also a bit nervous.

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News In Brief

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50 academics have called on Edinburgh University to divest from fossil fuels.

The institutional endowment fund is worth over £230 million and currently invests in fossil fuel and arms companies. The calls come as university management decide in late Spring

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ew figures show that from 2011-12 the average Scot’s carbon footprint increased by over 5%. The carbon footprint is a measure of all the energy, water and materials that go into making a product you buy or a service you use. When added to the carbon we emit through transport and heating our homes, we get a fuller picture of how our

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ore good news in the fight for environmental justice! The Scottish Government recently confirmed that it would consult on options for an environmental court or tribunal this year. Fortunately for them, we have just published a report by Frances McCartney, solicitor, on opportunities for a

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whether to move their money out of climatewrecking dirty energy. Ric Lander, FoES finance campaigner: “Our academics are right to urge universities to stop investing in dirty fossil fuels: centres of learning exist to tackle global challenges, not profit from global destruction.”

lifestyles impact on the climate. It is worrying that our collective footprint is growing as the economy comes out of recession. However, if we are serious about cutting our climate impact we can simply buy less stuff, shop more locally, improve the energy efficiency of our homes and switch to public and active transport.

specialist court in Scotland. The study considers the need for change, looks to other jurisdictions for inspiration and reflects on the opportunities that reform in this area of justice could bring about. The report is available at: foes.do/enviro_liti

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Annual General Meeting

All FoES members are invited to our AGM on Saturday 16th May 2015

oES is a democratic, grassroots organisation and the AGM is an opportunity for members to influence our direction and select new Board members.

This event is a chance to meet the staff, learn about our campaigns and make connections with other members.

communities from the Philippines, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Indonesia. We will also be joined by speakers from international fossil fuel campaigns including Godwin Ojo, Director of FoE Nigeria.

In the afternoon event we are delighted to welcome Serge Marti of LifeMosaic to talk about his work documenting the impacts of climate change on indigenous and poorer people around the world. He will be screening their film which features stories of affected

The afternoon event will start at 2pm and is open to non-members.

We particularly encourage newer members to attend and take part fully.

Registration for the AGM will begin at 10am with the meeting starting at 10.30. Both events will take place in Methodist Church Hall, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh.

You can register for both events online at foes.do/agm-2015 or return the tear-off strip on the covering letter to this magazine.

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Fracking Moratorium

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By Mary Church @mmachch

t the end of January Scotland joined the growing list of countries, states and regions around the world that have put in place a ban or moratorium on the controversial fracking industry.

The moratorium announced by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing is the result of over 4 years of campaigning against unconventional gas by Friends of the Earth Scotland, our local groups in Falkirk, Stirling and Dumfries and impacted communities across the country.

The week ahead of this historic move at Holyrood saw an exciting if somewhat chaotic episode of postreferendum politics play out, with nail-biting votes in Westminster on the UK Government’s outrageous plans to railroad through its pro-shale gas policies, and Labour and SNP trying to out-do each other over who could be more anti-fracking.

But the moratorium had been some time in the making. In early 2012 we began an

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What you can do: The public consultation, when it begins, is a really important opportunity to demonstrate the extent of opposition to fracking in communities the length and breadth of the country. We can all play our

outreach programme, holding public meetings and speaking to community councils in areas under license. We also started to build awareness with Government and in Parliament, in particular highlighting the risk of coalbed methane drilling which, despite having many of the same risks as shale gas fracking and being more of an immediate threat in Scotland, was perceived as less toxic than fracking.

Our campaign to date has seen us speaking in village halls across central and southern Scotland, fighting a public inquiry against Dart Energy’s plan for commercial coalbed methane at Airth, giving evidence to the Scottish Government’s Independent Expert Scientific Panel, taking a drilling rig to the SNP conference and a 10ft Mr Frackhead puppet to Holyrood.

While the moratorium is a hugely important milestone in the fight against unconventional fossil fuels, our work doesn’t end here. We need to turn the moratorium into a ban, and extend its reach to include underground coal gasification, an even more risky and experimental technique than fracking.

part in making sure folk know what’s at stake and get their voices heard in this process. We’ll be creating and sharing resources to help people participate. Keep your eye on our website and Your World e-newsletter for updates.

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We know the industry is gearing up to fight the moratorium in Scotland, and that we are up against companies with far deeper pockets than our own. We’ve already seen some slick PR and grossly exaggerated claims of community benefit payments from Grangemouth operators Ineos to convince local people to learn to love fracking.

However we are convinced that a careful and robust review of the public health impacts of this industry that looks at evidence from the USA and Australia – as promised by the Scottish Government – must lead to a ban.

Fracking moratorium facts: • the moratorium covers onshore unconventional oil and gas extraction • planning authorities have been told not to issue any permissions for shale gas fracking and coalbed methane drilling, and environmental regulator SEPA not to issue any permits for these activities • underground coal gasification is not included on the tenuous grounds that there are no plans to devolve one area of licensing that this technique requires • the Government has committed to: a full public health impact assessment; a full public consultation; further work to strengthen planning guidance; look at tightening environmental regulation, before it decides whether to lift the moratorium or turn it into a ban • no timescale has been given for the length of the moratorium: It will last as long as it takes the Government to complete the work they have committed to doing.

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Bans and moratoria around the world: SCOTLAND: Moratorium on shale gas and coalbed methane, 2015.

FRANCE: First country to ban, March 2011.

DENMARK: Moratorium on fracking.

GERMANY: Moratorium on hydraulic fracturing since 2012, ban 2014.

BULGARIA: Ban since January 2012.

CZECH REPUBLIC: Moratorium in May 2012.

NETHERLANDS: Moratorium on unconventional fossil fuel drilling.

SPAIN: Cantabria banned fracking in 2013, La Rioja, Navarra and Catalonia followed suit.

IRELAND: 2-year moratorium in March 2013.

NORTHERN IRELAND: Assembly voted for moratorium, Government failed to implement.

CANADA: Quebec, Newfoundland & New Brunswick moratoria on fracking, Nova Scotia working toward ban.

USA: Vermont banned fracking in May 2012, and New York State ban Dec 2014; New Jersey ban on waste water disposal.

AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, ban on any coal seam gas activity within 2km of residential areas, Feb 2013; Victoria 2 year moratorium on fracking 2013; Tasmania 5 year fracking ban Feb 2015.

ARGENTINA: 6 municipalities banned fracking.

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Underground Coal Gasification

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By Mary Church @mmachch

Here in Scotland, Cluff Natural Resources are advancing plans for a UCG demonstrator project underneath the Firth of Forth that combines two extremely experimental techniques: offshore UCG with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth

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UCG is totally unacceptable from a climate perspective because it opens up access to 600 billion tonnes of coal that would otherwise be left untouched – seams that are too thin or deep to access by conventional means – right when we need to be moving away from fossil fuels to a renewables-based energy system.

Combining UCG with CCS is totally unproven, and raises serious questions about the integrity of storage reservoirs. UCG also carries many similar risks to fracking in terms of local environmental and health impacts by way of groundwater contamination and air pollution. Experts say that UCG is far more experimental and risky than fracking, and recent trials around the world have resulted in pollution and explosions.

Find out more about underground coal gasification by reading our briefing at: foes.do/UCG_briefing

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nderground coal gasification (UCG) is an industrial process that converts coal into gas, but unlike the old town gas plants, the coal seam is set alight deep underground. Pairs of wells are drilled into the seam: one to pump in oxygen or steam to partially ignite the coal, the other to capture the produced gases. These are separated at the surface and the resulting syngas can be used to generate electricity, as transport fuel or industrial feedstock. The process is inefficient, with around 40% of energy from the coal lost, and the energy content of syngas is only around half that of natural gas.

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Fundraising

wo hundred people joined us for our ‘love the planet’ ceilidh on 14 February. The night was a sell-out, and everyone enjoyed dancing to the fantastic Belle Star Band. Our

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f you’re a keen walker, runner or cyclist, why not set yourself a challenge for Friends of the Earth Scotland? We can help you set up a page on Virgin Money Giving, which means your friends and family can quickly and easily support your challenge.

Just contact John Fitzgerald 0131 243 2717 or jfitzgerald@foe-scotland.org.uk for more details.

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ast year we were grateful to receive legacies from five loyal members, contributing over £3,000 towards our work.

A legacy of any size makes a real difference,

thanks to the Ceilidh Collective and all our ceilidh-goers who helped raise a fantastic £1,200 for our campaigns. We’ll announce the date of our next ceilidh later in the year.

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and helps us carry on our work to protect the environment for everyone. See the advert on the back page of What on Earth for more details.

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Climate Change

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By Shannon Stephens, Climate Activism Organiser

2015 is a crucial year in the fight against climate change. This December world leaders will meet at the UN talks in Paris to conclude negotiations for a new deal on climate change. So far, twenty years of international negotiations have failed to bring about an agreement in line with climate science or climate justice, yet a fair and ambitious agreement has never been so desperately needed.

At COP20 in Lima we saw that finance commitments are being pushed to the sidelines and developed countries to continue to erode the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” – a cornerstone of sustainable development since the Rio Declaration which means that the countries most responsible for creating the problem of climate change should be most responsible for getting us out of this mess.

Meanwhile, despite their failure, carbon markets are not only still included in the negotiating texts but there is debate about expanding them.

Unfortunately, powerful countries are fighting tooth and nail to weaken any potential agreement.

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From the results of the pre-negotiation round that took place in Geneva this February, we know there are no shortterm targets up to 2020, or even 2030, included in the formal negotiating text, only vague references to “enhancing the mitigation ambition.”

Meanwhile, the EU was the first major power to submit their proposed emission reductions pledges in advance of Paris, but the plan contains nothing beyond the 40% reduction by 2030 already announced last year. It does not represent any increase in effort from Europe in this vital year for action, nor does it pledge to cover any financial or technological support for countries on the front line of climate change impacts.

Nonetheless, the outcome of Paris is not set in stone – there is still time to influence the process. There are still many competing ideas contained in the negotiating document, still waiting to be resolved and decided. If we make enough noise in the coming months, we can have an impact.

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Climate Change

ogether with our partners in the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, we are planning a 2015 full of action on climate change, to build the climate movement and show politicians that we

Return the ‘For The Love Of’ postcard that you received with this magazine remembering to complete it with something that you are concerned about losing to climate change.

Be part of the Scottish delegation we're taking to Paris in December to march for climate justice, to connect with activists from around the world and to prepare ourselves for the work ahead.

demand strong and urgent action. And there will be plenty of opportunities to get involved!

Go to foes.do/Climate_Activists to sign up to be kept informed about these events.

Join us at Parliament in early Summer as we deliver thousands of these messages to the First Minister and ask her to redouble Scotland’s efforts to tackle climate change.

Continue the fight for the climate in 2016 by campaigning for community energy and divestment from fossil fuels, and stopping fracking once and for all.

On September 26th – 27th join us for an inspiring weekend of talks, workshops and actions as part of Reclaim Power and Alternatiba’s international day of alternatives.

On November 28th take part in a huge demonstration in Edinburgh. With thousands of us on the streets, we’ll send the message that we demand strong action from the next two weeks of negotiations in Paris.

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Sustainable Finance

PHOTO: RIC LANDER

By Ric Lander, finance campaigner @ricjl

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n 13-14 February at 450 events in 60 countries people around the world declared that it’s wrong to wreck the climate – and it’s wrong to profit from wrecking it.

This was the first ever Global Divestment Day calling for our money to be taken out of dirty, risky fossil fuels, and invested sustainably.

Scotland enthusiastically took part with events in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

University groups gathered hundreds of supporters on Friday, and on Saturday campaigners rallied in the capital with MSPs and MPs, calling for public funds to go fossilfree.

Campaigner Gill Davies coordinated actions in Edinburgh city centre: “It's easy for us to feel that the financial world is out of our control but these are our pensions, our banks accounts, our money: we have the opportunity to take control. Divestment shows us that we have more power collectively than we often think.”

Divestment Day in Edinburgh

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In Edinburgh and elsewhere, local government pensions hold billions of pounds on behalf of hundreds of thousands of council workers. To make the case for our local government pensions to divest from fossil fuels Friends of the Earth campaigners are making new connections with local activist groups and trade unions. The City of Edinburgh branch of UNISON, the trade union which represents the most members of

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the Lothian Pension Fund, recently voted at their annual meeting to support divestment from fossil fuels.

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PHOTOS: COLIN HATTERSLEY

Some public pensions are leading the way on sustainable investment. In February the Strathclyde Pension Fund announced a £10 million investment in smaller-scale renewables, and the Falkirk fund invested £30 million in social housing last year. These moves show that public pension funds can invest positively in their local area.

But we still have a long way to go. Last year local government pensions in Scotland were found to be investing over £1.11 billion in fossil fuels, and there is no sign this amount is going down. These funds were invested in companies including Shell, BP and coal company BHP Billiton, who are stripping rainforest in central Borneo for new opencast mining.

To ensure our pensions are investing in our future rather than contributing to climate devastation we are encouraging people to sign our online petition. Our members can help by taking part, sharing

it with their colleagues, and telling us their pension provider, so we can tell Scotland's pension funds how much support there is for change. Find out more at foes.do/divestpensions

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Air Pollution

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By Emilia Hanna @emiliajaneagain

20mph zones are coming to Edinburgh after a successful campaign backed by the public, ourselves and groups such as Guide Dogs Scotland, cycling campaigners and Ramblers.

Around 80% of the city's streets will be converted to 20mph zones starting from April 2016. Campaigners are now calling for 20mph zones to be introduced in Glasgow too.

This is brilliant news because 20mph zones: 1. Save lives: An influential review of 20mph zones across the UK found that the overall number of accidents per year fell by 60%, with accidents involving children dropping by 70%, and cyclists by 29%.

2. Encourage walking and cycling: one of the biggest barriers to active travel is that people don't feel safe. Removing speeding traffic will help people to feel more comfortable to walk or jump on their bike.

3. Tackle air pollution: increased walking and cycling rates will mean fewer cars on the roads and less air pollution as a result.

Also, 20mph zones encourage traffic to flow more smoothly than in 30mph zones, where traffic tends to speed up and slow down more, producing spurts of emissions from more accelerating and braking.

20mph zones are good news for Edinburgh but we will press for more action on air pollution including increased spending on active travel infrastructure and a Low Emission Zone for the city.

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POLLUTION HOTSPOTS For the third year running, we ranked Scotland’s dirtiest streets revealing that air pollution levels persistently broke safety air quality standards due to have been met in 2010.

Analysing data from 90 air pollution monitoring stations, we found that 14 sites were breaking the legal limit for Nitrogen Dioxide, and that 19 were breaking the Scottish standard for Particulate Matter.

Our analysis generated an unprecedented amount of national and local media coverage, which sends a strong signal to government that the time has come to treat air pollution with the seriousness it demands.

We found roads failing standards in towns and cities across the country from Aberdeen to East Kilbride. Visit foes.do/streets14 to find out if your street has made the list.

We also helped to fight off a new Waitrose supermarket proposed for St John’s Road, Corstorphine – Edinburgh's most polluted street.

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e know that Scotland’s air pollution problem is caused by too much traffic on our roads. Air pollution is responsible for more than 2000 deaths in Scotland every year, at a cost of around £1.1 billion to the Scottish economy.

The Scottish Government is finally starting to show signs of action and has promised us clean air by 2020. It has recently launched a Low Emission Strategy which is a national plan on how to tackle air pollution. The consultation is open until the end of April and can be viewed at foes.do/Gov_LES. However, we need you to add your voice to calls for clean air.

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Whilst the Strategy is a step in the right direction, it lacks vision and clarity. We need the Strategy to commit to cutting traffic levels and clean up vehicle emission standards. We need better cycle and walking paths, cleaner public transport, and Low Emission Zones rolled out across the country. Low Emission Zones are areas where the most polluting vehicles are banned and have proven to be successful in several European cities including London.

They have not yet been introduced in Scotland for two key reasons. Firstly, there is a need for different local councils to introduce LEZs in a uniform way, so that a lorry subject to a LEZ in Edinburgh would be subject to a similar system in Glasgow. The other major barrier is cost: LEZs can be expensive to set up and local authorities are already strapped for cash.

The Low Emission Strategy can overcome these two hurdles, by providing a clear framework on how LEZs should be implemented, and by committing money to local councils to set them up.

We are calling for the Strategy, when finalised, to: • Provide a finalised Low Emission Zone Framework by the end of the year; • Commit to a range of measures to reduce traffic levels so that Scottish air quality standards are met by 2020 at the latest.

We need as many people as possible to respond to this crucial consultation. Please take action now at foes.do/LowEmissionStrat 13

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Community Power

by Anne Schiffer @AnneSchiffer1

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CARES Conference 2015 very year the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) brings together communities and experts to share experiences to grow the community renewables movement in Scotland. Through the Community Power campaign we were this year able to add an extra day sponsored by the Scottish Community Energy Coalition.

Day two was specifically aimed at people new to community energy and highlighted the financial support and professional advice available to them through bodies such as Local Energy Scotland.

We invited one of our international partners, Belgian co-operative Ecopower, to attend and share their experience. They have grown from a handful of members who originally wanted to revive a small hydro scheme into a renewable energy co-operative of around 50,000 people.

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Energy Minister Fergus Ewing

It was inspiring to hear from Dirk Vansintjan, one of the founders of Ecopower, who provoked a lot of thought about the barriers to community energy becoming mainstream in Scotland. What stands out are the benefits when community energy groups are also able to supply energy through the national grid to their members. As well as generating renewable energy, Ecopower supply electricity to approximately 40,000 customers. Ecopower have observed that people who consume the energy they produce are also likely to become more efficient users with up to 40% savings.

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n February we launched a new online platform to better share information about our campaign and details about the Scottish Community Energy Coalition. You can also find lots of evidence around exciting case studies previously showcased in our Community Power Scotland: from remote island grids to urban solar co-operatives report and film.

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Time for a Bigger Community Energy Target he government’s existing target of 500MW for “local and community owned” renewable energy by 2020 has been vital in getting public support and ensuring that local people benefit from the renewables transition needed to meet our climate targets.

285MW of community and locally owned renewable energy was already installed by

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Edinburgh Community Solar Cooperative (ECSC) Gets Go Ahead dinburgh City Council has granted ECSC permission to install solar photovoltaics on the roofs of council-owned property. This is a great opportunity for an urban community to benefit from a local renewable energy scheme. Visit edinburghsolar.coop for more information about the upcoming share offer launch.

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2013 with a further 679MW of generating capacity in the pipeline. This indicates that 500MW by 2020 will be relatively easily achieved.

We are therefore urging the Scottish Government to raise its ambition for ‘local and community owned’ energy by increasing its 2020 target to 1GW and setting an ambitious target of 2GW for 2030.

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Local Groups

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MIDLOTHIAN ur newest local group have hit the ground running by demonstrating strong opposition to plans to build a new A701 extension from the City bypass to the back of Bilston. They believe that this is not a genuine traffic solution but merely an excuse to develop the area and expand the out of town shopping centre at Straiton.

If the proposal goes ahead it will cut the local community in half destroying the peaceful rural character of Damhead. Further it will also eradicate great chunks of Green Belt and prime agricultural land and adversely impact on local biodiversity.

The group joined residents at the demo outside the Council offices in December to object to this road proposal being included in the Local Plan.

They held a free Valentine’s Day ‘Love Your Bike’ maintenance and repair event with

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UPower team and screened a film in Loanhead. Plenty of people (and even a dog!) sent messages to the First Minister demonstrating the things that they loved which are affected by climate change.

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EDINBURGH uring the UN talks in Lima they took to the streets with a polar bear, whose habitat is threatened by rapidly melting ice due to rising temperatures, dressed as Paddington Bear, a native of Peru. They wanted to send a message to both world leaders and local politicians that urgent action was needed to avert climate catastrophe.

Edinburgh group convenor Matthew Crighton also spoke to the City Council on the city’s proposed Sustainable Energy Action Plan.

The plan hopes to cut the capital’s carbon footprint by 42% by 2020 through initiatives like electric vehicle charging points and solar panels in unused areas. FoE Edinburgh broadly welcomed the plans but cautioned that city needed to set clear timetables and quantify how much carbon saving the various schemes would result in. The group are also working to organise a People’s Climate Assembly in Edinburgh to help mobilise people from right across the community ahead of the Paris talks.

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