Today is my last day at Friends of the Earth Scotland, after 30 years in the Scottish environment movement. There has been good progress in those three decades and the environment and climate change have moved from fringe concerns to mainstream …
Windfall tax on oil profits is only the start
A windfall tax on oil profits can help with immediate fuel bills but we must power our energy system with renewables to protect people and planet.
Another nail in the coffin for oil and gas?
The Scottish Government has promised a review of oil & gas but how can it reconcile fossil fuels with the neccesary climate action.
Stopping Cambo oil field rockets up the political agenda
Political parties are taking sides as the debate about the Cambo oil field hots up.
We must stop the UK Government from approving more oil
Oil giants are seeking permission from the UK Government to open a huge new oil field. The climate impacts of this project would be devastating.
The Great Net Zero Con
Governments and companies are perpetrating a global con trick by talking about net zero climate emissions.
Climate change catches up with the oil industry
The court said that Shell’s plans were incompatible with the action needed to tackle climate change.
Lessons from the Braer disaster
Braer Oil Spill Anniversary reminds us of the danger of the fossil fuel industry
Forward and back on climate
Good climate commitments are being undermined by UK and Scottish Government faith in far-off technical fixes.
When you’re in a hole, it’s time to stop digging
Coined in the 1950s the psychology term cognitive dissonance has become popularly understood to mean a situation where a person holds two completely contradictory beliefs without seeming to comprehend the problem with this. Cognitive dissonance is very much in evidence …
Marrakech blog – still waiting for action on climate change
For a while this meeting looked like it might be that rarest of things, a UN climate conference that actually finished on time rather than running into Saturday or even Sunday. But, true to UN form, talks broke down last night.
The Budget and the Environment
On the face of it George Osborne’s Budget doesn’t say much about the environment. But if you dig into the details there is plenty to show that David Cameron’s claim that the last government would be the ‘greenest ever’ has …